Historique
Périodique
Changing cocaine use practices: neo-liberalism, HIV-AIDS, and death in an Argentine shantytown
(Changer les pratiques d'usage de cocaïne : néo-libéralisme, VIH-Sida, et décès dans un bidonville d'Argentine)
Auteur(s) :
EPELE M. E.
Année
2003
Page(s) :
1189-1216
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
27
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Thésaurus mots-clés
COCAINE
;
VOIE D'ADMINISTRATION
;
EVOLUTION
;
FACTEUR DE RISQUE
;
BIDONVILLE
;
PAUVRETE
;
ETHNOGRAPHIE
Thésaurus géographique
ARGENTINE
Note générale :
Substance Use and Misuse, 2003, 38, (9), 1189-1216
Résumé :
ENGLISH :
Cocaine consuming patterns are changing among young drug users who live in "The Villa," a shantytown located in Greater Buenos Aires. After years of drug injection dominance, cocaine snorting became the preferred drug consuming practice while deep and fast structural and cultural transformations have been taken place as part of the neoliberal program implemented in Argentina during the 1990s and the final economic default in 2001-2002. In this article, I analyze how drug users understand and explain these changing practices, including the following aspects: deteriorating economic conditions, the transformations of survival strategies, moral codes, social network organization, violence regulating mechanisms, criminal activity, and police repression. Based on an ethnographic study carried out during the last eight months in "The Villa," I suggest that intense and generalized cocaine injection in shantytowns has logistic, organizational, and structural requirements that cocaine snorting does not have. Particularly, I explore two main aspects associated with these changing cocaine consumption practices: the consequences of the many Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)-related deaths, which occurred among older drug injectors, and the progressive social fragmentation tied to the extreme economic deprivation, deepened social exclusion, and growing everyday violence. (Editor's abstract.)
Affiliation :
Programma de Antropologia y Salud, Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Univ. Nacional de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires. E-mail : epelenetverk.com.ar
Argentine. Argentina.
Argentine. Argentina.