Agency and exchange: an ethnography of a heroin marketplace

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Agency and exchange: an ethnography of a heroin marketplace

This thesis is concerned with the exchange of heroin in localised, street-based marketplaces. Commercial exchange of heroin in such sites has been a characteristic of the Australian heroin scene since the early 1990s. Although some qualitative investigations have been undertaken, the dominant approa...

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Main Author:	Dwyer, Robyn
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	Curtin University 2009
Subjects:	dealers drug users social relations Footscray agency commercial exchange Australia street-based marketplaces heroin ethnography
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2302

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