The Best Place
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-3489-7 (ISBN)
In both local and international imaginations, Vancouver, Canada, is often celebrated as one of the world’s most beautiful, cosmopolitan, and livable cities. Simultaneously, the city continues to be ground zero for successive waves of public health emergency and intervention, including a recent and unprecedented drug overdose crisis driven by the proliferation of illicitly manufactured fentanyl and related analogs in the local drug supply. In The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver, Danya Fast explores these politics of place from the perspectives of young people who use drugs. Those who are the subject of this book were in many ways relegated to the social, spatial, and economic margins of the city. Yet, they were also often at the very center of city life and state projects, including the project of protecting life in the context of the current overdose crisis.
DANYA FAST is an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
Foreword by Lenore Manderson
Acknowledgments
Dramatis Personae
Places
Introduction
PART I: DREAMS OF PLACE
Lee, the Best Place on Earth, 2009
Jeff, Paradise, 2009
Big-City Dreams
Lula and Jeff, Paradise, 2012
Senses of Place
Lee, World City, 2009
Where I’m Going, Lee, 2011
Jordan, Normal Places, 2012
Danya and Nancy, the Field, 2010
Lee, Not These Service Places, 2009
Jordan, Normal People, 2008
Frictions
Danya, around Downtown, 2008
Janet and the Lost Boys, Never Never Land, 2008
Trajectories
Carly and Connor, Family, 2009
Geographies
Patty and Joe, Home, 2012
Part II: SOMETHING
Patty, Coast Salish Territories, 2009
Vital Experimentation
Shae, Lula, and Jeff, Lighthouse Shelter, 2009
Momentum
Laurie and Aaron, Trafalgar Hotel, 2010
Moral Worlds
Terry, Jail, 2011
Carly and Connor, Apartment, 2013
Stagnation
Janet, Trafalgar Hotel, 2010
Patty and Joe, Mackenzie Hotel, 2010
Endless Business
Terry, Field Office, 2012
Lee, Mackenzie Hotel, 2012
Reentering Never Never Land
Jordan, Beachwood Hotel, 2013 74
Shae, Mackenzie Hotel, 2009
Disappearances
Lee, Gone, 2015
PART III: LOST
Patty, City of Glass, 2011
Community Care
Patty and Joe, Lakeshore Hotel, 2010
Losing Everything
Patty and Joe, St. Mary’s, 2012
Boredom
Aaron, Northwest Apartments, 2013
(No)Exit, Shae, 2013
Flashbacks and Futures
Patty, Terminal City, 2013
The Dance of Death
Patty and Joe, St. Mary’s, 2013
Where We’ve Ended Up, Patty and Joe, 2013
Waiting
Terry, St. Mary’s, 2014
Flights
Patty and Joe, Lakeshore Hotel, 2014
PART IV: NOWHERE
Patty, Saltwater City, 2017
The Will to Intervene
Shane, Passages, 2017
Living on the Edge of Change
Jessica, Horizons, 2018
Filling the Hours
Shane, Downtown, 2017
Stalls and Dead Ends
Lula, Wenonah House, 2016
Everything We Need, Carly and Connor, 2013
A Churn of Intervention
Raymond, Downtown, 2017
The Colonial Present
Aaron, Field Office, 2017
Living with Death
Lula and Jeff, Field Office, 2017
The Broken Promise Land
Janet, Johnny, Rachel, and Gordo, Camp under the Tracks, 2017
Exits, Janet, 2015
PART V: EVERYWHERE
Jordan, Rain City, 2016
Laura, Field Office, 2017
Shae/Trix, Apartment, 2017
Janet, Recovery House, 2018
Exits, Janet, 2018
Terry, Psychiatric Ward, 2018
The Way Home, Terry, 2011
Laurie, Downtown, 2018
Aaron, Beachwood Hotel, 2019
Lula and Jeff, Greystone Hotel, 2019
Dom, BC Children’s Hospital, 2020
Carly and Connor, Field Office, 2018
Joe, Field Office, 2018
Patty, Everywhere, 2018
Where We’ve Ended Up, Patty and Joe, 2013
Afterword
Notes
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.11.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Medical Anthropology |
| Zusatzinfo | 8 color photographs |
| Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-9788-3489-6 / 1978834896 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-9788-3489-7 / 9781978834897 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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