Hope, Choice and the Improvable Self: A Critical Analysis of ‘New Recovery’ in Australia
Drawing on science and technology studies, this thesis analyses how ‘new recovery’ is enacted in Australian alcohol and other drug policy, psychological science and treatment, and the extent to which authoritative enactments of recovery inform individuals’ lives. It argues that there exist important...
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Curtin University
2017
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| author | Fomiatti, Renae Dorothy |
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| description | Drawing on science and technology studies, this thesis analyses how ‘new recovery’ is enacted in Australian alcohol and other drug policy, psychological science and treatment, and the extent to which authoritative enactments of recovery inform individuals’ lives. It argues that there exist important threads of continuity with older forms of recovery, most notably, in the neoliberal politics of responsibilisation, erasure of socio-political forces, and continuing stigmatisation of people who use drugs and their social relationships. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-682672021-04-21T00:18:14Z Hope, Choice and the Improvable Self: A Critical Analysis of ‘New Recovery’ in Australia Fomiatti, Renae Dorothy Drawing on science and technology studies, this thesis analyses how ‘new recovery’ is enacted in Australian alcohol and other drug policy, psychological science and treatment, and the extent to which authoritative enactments of recovery inform individuals’ lives. It argues that there exist important threads of continuity with older forms of recovery, most notably, in the neoliberal politics of responsibilisation, erasure of socio-political forces, and continuing stigmatisation of people who use drugs and their social relationships. 2017 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/68267 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Fomiatti, Renae Dorothy Hope, Choice and the Improvable Self: A Critical Analysis of ‘New Recovery’ in Australia |
| title | Hope, Choice and the Improvable Self: A Critical Analysis of ‘New Recovery’ in Australia |
| title_full | Hope, Choice and the Improvable Self: A Critical Analysis of ‘New Recovery’ in Australia |
| title_fullStr | Hope, Choice and the Improvable Self: A Critical Analysis of ‘New Recovery’ in Australia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hope, Choice and the Improvable Self: A Critical Analysis of ‘New Recovery’ in Australia |
| title_short | Hope, Choice and the Improvable Self: A Critical Analysis of ‘New Recovery’ in Australia |
| title_sort | hope, choice and the improvable self: a critical analysis of ‘new recovery’ in australia |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/68267 |