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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Posted Wed, 5 Oct 2016 11:46:05 This message was forwarded through MEDSOCNEWS. If you wish to make an announcement or publicise an event then please send the text to: [log in to unmask] You can follow us on twitter @MedSocNews +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ International Journal of Drug Policy Call for papers Themed collection: Drugged pleasures Guest editors: Fay Dennis and Adrian Farrugia The marginality of accounts of pleasure in alcohol and other drug (AOD) research, intervention, policy and public discourse is an ongoing concern for AOD researchers. Explored in depth in this journal eight years ago (Treloar and Holt, 2008), this themed collection intends to revisit some of these issues in light of broader conceptual shifts within qualitative AOD research towards what can be loosely categorised as ‘new material’ theories. Drawing from perspectives such as actor-network theory, science and technology studies, Deleuze and Guattari’s (1987) ‘assemblages’ and Barad’s (2007) ‘agential realism’, researchers are increasingly focusing on relationality, emergence, specific ‘events’ of consumption and the contingency of drug effects. These theories seek to decentre the ontological primacy of the anterior human subject and the notion of stable drug objects, and draw attention to the provisional enactment of AOD realities in research, policy and consumption itself. The turn to new materialisms raises new questions about how to most effectively approach pleasure in AOD consumption, the significance of such a focus, and how to best conceptualise it. This themed collection will consider what new material approaches have to offer our understandings of pleasure in AOD consumption, policy, and practice. We welcome submissions from a wide disciplinary area, drawing on a variety of novel concepts and methods. We encourage a mix of paper types, including commentaries, reviews or critical essays, as well as empirical case studies. Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following: · Theorising and studying the emergence of pleasure beyond bodily boundaries; · Analysing how pleasure is assembled and made in consumption practices; · Examining how drugged pleasures can inform harm reduction; · Exploring how attuning to pleasure can produce more embodied and sensitive research and treatment practices; · Exploring how pleasure is constrained/contained, made or enacted in policy, health interventions and treatment practices; · Continuing discussions of the singular focus on harm; · Investigating the blur between notions of pleasure and danger in drug consumption; · Considering whether the focus on pleasure in AOD research is fulfilling the potential researchers argue for; · Developing concepts that could exceed pleasure in the ability to improve our understandings of the complexity of drug experiences; · Developing novel methods for analysing drugged pleasures, desires or practices of care. Commentary and Afterword We are excited to announce that Associate Professor Helen Keane will contribute a Commentary, and Professor Carla Treloar and Associate Professor Martin Holt will offer an Afterword to the collection. Guidelines for submission Abstracts (not to exceed 500 words) should be emailed to Fay Dennis ([log in to unmask]) and Adrian Farrugia ([log in to unmask]) by 21 November 2016. The email subject should read ‘IJDP Themed Collection’. The editors will inform the authors by 19 December 2016 whether to proceed to full submission. If accepted, full manuscripts should be submitted to the journal between 10 February and 20 April 2017. All manuscripts are subject to the usual IJDP peer review process. For more information on types of submissions see https://www.elsevier.com/journals/international-journal-of-drug-policy/0955-3959/guide-for-authors ********************************************************************** 1. For general enquires or problems with the list or to CHANGE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS send a message to: [log in to unmask] 2. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the following message: set medsocnews nomail 3. To resume email from the list, send the following message: set medsocnews mail 4. To leave MedSocNews, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message (leave the subject line blank and do not include a signature): leave medsocnews 5. To join or subscribe to MedSocNews, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message (leave the subject line blank and do not include a signature): SUBSCRIBE medsocnews firstname lastname 6. Further information about the medsocnews discussion list (including list archive and how to subscribe to or leave the list) can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medsocnews.html **********************************************************************