{"id":1561,"date":"2016-05-30T10:09:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T00:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2016-05-30T10:09:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T00:09:10","slug":"recently-published-harm-reduction-and-the-ethics-of-drug-use-contemporary-techniques-of-self-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2016\/05\/30\/recently-published-harm-reduction-and-the-ethics-of-drug-use-contemporary-techniques-of-self-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Recently Published &#8212; &#8220;Harm reduction and the ethics of drug use: contemporary techniques of self-governance&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/covers.booktopia.com.au\/big\/9780975043646\/workplace-health-and-neoliberalism-vol-14.jpg\" width=\"158\" height=\"216\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Dr Margaret Pereira and Professor John Scott from the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, have co-authored an article\u00a0recently published in the journal <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/action\/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&amp;journalCode=rhsr20#.V0uDLPl96Uk\" target=\"_blank\">Health Sociology Review<\/a><\/em>\u00a0titled &#8220;Harm reduction and the ethics of drug use: contemporary techniques of self-governance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><!--more--><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<em>Drawing on Foucault\u2019s conceptualisation of power, this paper examines public health as a distinctly modern regime of governance. An account of the historical regulation of drug use is traced in order to examine socio-historical shifts and lines of continuity in contemporary technologies of harm reduction. Using qualitative interview data, we examined practices of power in the context of contemporary drug use, including self-governance using techniques of monitoring, self-management and self-tracking. Participants\u2019 accounts revealed that they were encouraged to self-govern their drug use through a variety of reformist technologies that are embedded in harm-reduction programs. It is argued that participants\u2019 subjectivity is formed at the intersection of authoritative governance and self-governance, through ethical practices of the self which have emerged from disciplinary health practices, and incorporate the body as the site of power. We illustrate this by drawing a distinction between hygienist and sanitationistpractices of public health. These governmental practices, which are embedded in public health programs, encourage people who use drugs to transform themselves into moral citizens<b>,<\/b> aligning their ethical practices with governing interests.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">To access the full article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14461242.2016.1184583\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Margaret Pereira and Professor John Scott from the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, have co-authored an article\u00a0recently published in the journal Health Sociology Review\u00a0titled &#8220;Harm reduction and the ethics of drug use: contemporary techniques of self-governance.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9754,9703,9696],"tags":[11630,9813,1674,11531],"class_list":{"0":"post-1561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-journal-articles","8":"category-our-research","9":"category-publications","10":"tag-druguse","11":"tag-johnscott","12":"tag-journal","13":"tag-margaretpereira"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}