Harm Reduction is a Social Movement
| dc.contributor.author | Solanki, Jay | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-17T17:15:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-09-17T17:15:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-09-17 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2019-08-23 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Harm reduction is a label given to a suite of health and social service practices that seek to mitigate the harm associated with illicit drug use without demanding or expecting drug users to abstain. It is also a label under which a diverse and globalized social movement has organized to alter the conditions that give rise to drug-related harm, broadly construed. The central argument of this thesis is that a philosophy of harm reduction will benefit from taking a social movement perspective. Philosophical engagement in the area that focuses on or isolates narrow issues of policy while neglecting the social movement, risks reproducing or strengthening a tendency toward technocratic management that many harm reduction activists struggle to resist. By adopting a social movement perspective, the philosophizing that is done can be better attuned to the actual politics, and actual needs that are identified in practice. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/15050 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.pending | false | |
| dc.publisher | University of Waterloo | en |
| dc.subject | harm reduction | en |
| dc.subject | social movements | en |
| dc.subject | illicit drugs | en |
| dc.title | Harm Reduction is a Social Movement | en |
| dc.type | Master Thesis | en |
| uws-etd.degree | Master of Arts | en |
| uws-etd.degree.department | Philosophy | en |
| uws-etd.degree.discipline | Philosophy | en |
| uws-etd.degree.grantor | University of Waterloo | en |
| uws.contributor.advisor | Dea, Shannon | |
| uws.contributor.affiliation1 | Faculty of Arts | en |
| uws.peerReviewStatus | Unreviewed | en |
| uws.published.city | Waterloo | en |
| uws.published.country | Canada | en |
| uws.published.province | Ontario | en |
| uws.scholarLevel | Graduate | en |
| uws.typeOfResource | Text | en |