Following the moving and changing attachments and assemblages of ‘addiction’: Applying the actor network approach to autobiographies

The article applies actor network theory (ANT) to autobiographical data on alcohol dependence to explore what ANT can offer to the analysis of ‘addiction stories’. By defining ‘addiction’ as a relational achievement, as the effect of elements acting together as a configuration of human and non-human actors, the article demonstrates how the moving and changing attachments of addiction can be dynamically analyzed with concepts of ‘ assemblage’, ‘mediator’, ‘tendency’, ‘translation’, ‘trajectory’, ‘immutable mobile’, ‘fluid’ and ‘bush fire’.

Source: International Journal of Drug Policy - April 1, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Jukka T örrönen, Christoffer Tigerstedt Tags: Editor ’s Choice Source Type: research