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Author:   Joshua Burraway
Publisher:   HAU
Imprint:   HAU
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.626kg
ISBN:  

9781914363290

ISBN 10:   1914363299
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   04 June 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Prologue: Two Millimeters Introduction Dropping Like Flies Anthropology and Intoxication The Art of Intoxication What Are We Forgetting? Unpacking the Toolkit Clock Time, Subjective Time, and Consciousness Contextual Chemicals Difference and Sameness, Phenomenology, and Psychodynamics Outline of the Book A Note on Gender Chapter 1: Itchy Park Fields of Play Itchy Park and Itchycoo Park The Welfare State and Spaces of Homelessness Homelessness and New Labour The Age of Austerity Chapter 2: Killing Time Itchy People Waste Not, Want Not Boredom: A Brief History Looking the Right Way The Rush Bittersweet Branches Chapter 3: Not Enough Going Out with a Bang The Godfather Taking the Piss The Rumor Mill Moving On Chapter 4: The Blackout Real Pain and Letting Go Interruptions and Dissociation Memory and Metamorphosis The Crisis of Presence Memory, Mourning, and Rituals of the Self The Singularity Chapter 5: Lost Time Remember What? Rewind and Fast Forward Swiss Cheese and Lost Time The Last Traveler Chapter 6: Becoming Somebody Else Amnesiac Ballads and Double Images Possession without Spirits Lost and Found Conclusion: Towards a Poetics of Blackout The Strange and the Familiar Anthropological Poetics and White Holes Limitless References

Reviews

""A brilliant ethnography of addiction: superbly written, flush with phenomenally erudite scholarship that is fun to read, and crystal clear. Burraway conveys the spectacular humanity and tormented sociability of people no one wants to be around--unless they are a saint or are drinking-and-drugging themselves to death. He sets them in the historical-structural contexts that ripped their lives apart, while simultaneously exploring their individualities. He plumbs the elusive selfhood of their blotto blackouts, but the vitality of his characters leaps from the pages, including the artistic genius of several of them (with prints of a few breathtaking paintings). This contemporary archive of fallible humanity surplused by Britain's version of neoliberal racism makes you root for them, and you will find yourself remembering them long after putting the book down.""-- ""Philippe Bourgois, coauthor of ""Righteous Dopefiend"""" ""A welcome and rare in-depth work on people trapped in homelessness in Britain's austerity state. Burraway manages to bring the world of people who live in a London park, seemingly alongside us yet also very distant and often ignored, up close. In engaging detail and flowing prose, he tells us about their desires and companionship, and not simply their suffering. Drawing on a wide range of philosophical and anthropological perspectives, putting the politics of ""the blackout"" in conjunction with artwork created and lost, this is a timely reminder of the dynamic yet unappreciated lives running parallel to ours.""-- ""Johannes Lenhard, author of ""Making Better Lives: Hope, Freedom, and Home-Making among People Sleeping Rough in Paris"""" ""What happens when time slips and one's own body fades to oblivion only to return again as an other? Is it possible to answer this? Is it really even possible to ask? These are the kinds of questions one is led to after reading Burraway's rich, erudite, and--despite the subject matter--beautifully written ethnography of addicted homeless persons in London's Itchy Park. Becoming Somebody Else is a masterwork in phenomenological anthropology and is destined to be read as such. You should read it now.""-- ""Jarrett Zigon, author of ""How Is It Between Us? Relational Ethics and Care for the World""""

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Joshua Burraway is a medical anthropologist working at the intersection of social and political theory, critical phenomenology, addiction medicine, and psychiatry. He has conducted extensive ethnographic research studying the lives of people experiencing homelessness in London as well as marginalized populations in rural Appalachia in the Eastern United States. 

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