ASA Addiction Anthropology Network (AAN)
Aims and objectives
Addiction anthropology has been a field dominated by American scholars, ideas, and field sites. But while most established anthropologists of addiction live and work in the United States, many of the field’s younger researchers are based at British universities. Where American addiction anthropology dwells predominantly on US-based case studies, and focuses mainly on drug addictions, the work of British scholars takes a more progressive approach, mostly focusing on fieldsites outside of America or behavioural addictions. This network aims to establish Britain as an alternative centre of addiction anthropology, by providing a clear institutional structure for collaboration and discovery. In doing so, our aim will be to transform the way that addiction is understood, placing different cultural approaches constructively into dialogue, and providing fresh perspectives on a notoriously hard to treat condition.
List of Members:
- Joseph Tulasiewicz (UCL)
- Bhrigupati Singh (SOAS - CAMHRA)
- Alastair Parsons (UCL)
- Hamda Alsuwaidi (UCL)
- Lucy Clake (University of Kent)
- Ellen Forsman (University of Cambridge)
- Xin Zhan (University of Cambridge)
- Ben Theobald (UCL)
- Charles Beach (UCL)
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