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A War on People

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

A War on People

By Jarrett Zigon

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About the book

If we see that our contemporary condition is one of war and widely diffused complexity, how do we understand our most basic ethical motivations? What might be the aims of our political activity? A War on People takes up these questions and offers a glimpse of a possible alternative future in this ethnographically and theoretically rich examination of the activity of some unlikely political actors: users of heroin and crack cocaine, both active and former. The result is a groundbreaking book on h...Show more

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9780520297692

Publisher

University of California Press

Published year

2018

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1

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A War on People

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Hardcover

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