Young street drug users: Building existential territories
Loth, Caroline
Young street drug users: Building existential territories - 2023.
35
Young drug users living on the streets of Lyon occupy public space, build shelters, beg for money, consume psychoactive substances, join a network of social relationships, and thus develop the ability to live and cohabit in the city. On its margins - or right at its heart? - they generate physical and existential territories far from the concept of wandering that often defines them in social and political action. Based on research conducted at various times and in different settings (social work interventions, anthropological studies, ethnographies for a research centre), we wish here to recreate the full breadth of these young people’s ways of living in the city. The article gives an account of their manifest urban skills, necessarily influenced by their drug use, and thus of their eminently political existence in the city.
Young street drug users: Building existential territories - 2023.
35
Young drug users living on the streets of Lyon occupy public space, build shelters, beg for money, consume psychoactive substances, join a network of social relationships, and thus develop the ability to live and cohabit in the city. On its margins - or right at its heart? - they generate physical and existential territories far from the concept of wandering that often defines them in social and political action. Based on research conducted at various times and in different settings (social work interventions, anthropological studies, ethnographies for a research centre), we wish here to recreate the full breadth of these young people’s ways of living in the city. The article gives an account of their manifest urban skills, necessarily influenced by their drug use, and thus of their eminently political existence in the city.
Réseaux sociaux