EXPERIENCING ADDICTION AND DEPENDENCY AMONG YOUTH IN JAMMU, INDIA
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- March 19, 2019
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Gupta, Sugandh
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology
- Abstract
- In this thesis, I advocate for an ethnographic study of addiction experiences based on 8 weeks of preliminary fieldwork during the summer of 2017 among youth residing in Jammu City, Jammu and Kashmir, India. I expand the scholarship on the anthropology of addiction to South Asia by demonstrating how addiction experience is constituted in the everyday: through kinship relations, regional and national histories, and medical and juridical regimes of state-sponsored institutions. I do so by exploring the cultural and moral practice of ‘dependency’ as a productive lens onto addiction experience, and which has long-served as an important idiom to theorize classic understandings of ‘Indian personhood’ and the ‘Indian Self’ in the South Asia literature. By locating addiction in the intimate relations of reliance and care that unfold between people, substances and institutions, my effort is to rethink ‘dependency’ at the conjuncture of regional and national histories in Jammu, India.
- Date of publication
- May 2018
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- Advisor
- Rivkin-Fish, Michele
- Chua, Jocelyn
- Middleton, Townsend
- Degree
- Master of Arts
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
- Graduation year
- 2018
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