ANTH 4330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Emic And Etic, Harm Reduction, Neoliberalism
24 Apr 2021
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11:38 am: neoliberalism- is a moment we all live in, references that life is increasingly privatized and organized by corporations and making profit. Individuals are expected to be entrepreneurs, flexible, authors of their own success: state has less role in the lives of citizens, promotes individualism in the community (part of colonialism) In legalization, helps destigmatize the drug and allow the drugs that people do have access to are safer: can aid in mental health and genetic dispositions. As the focal point of shana harris" article, harm reduction is used as a public health model for reducing the negative effects of drugs instead of eradicating their use entirely. Implemented in argentina, harris" fieldwork saw this practice through a social lens, as harm reductionists experimented with positioning themselves under a type of latin context. As a more practical and considerate approach, harm reduction is significant due to its efforts in opposing anglo-saxon methods whereby altering ones" behaviours remain the emphasis.
