ANT204H5 Lecture : Righteous Dopefiend Lecture 2
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Last week she was too sick to teach, so for last weeks lecture refer to last weeks tutorial. The normative reaction we have, the intuitive reaction is for them to get their act together. The message is, it is complicated: where you have to actually go close (an interesting metaphor that burgouis does with his book when understanding what is going on) It is a message that is weirdly proposed here. These microforms of abuse: good will of nurse and doctors (linked to and related back to structural forms of abuse) Bourgois defines abuse as a violent relationship that can be interpersonal but also exist on a societal (structural) level on the part of one groups vis- -vis another. Key to abuse is that it is chronic and sustained, and that the victims may take on/internalize forms of abuse they themselves have experiences: he is trying to account to the exceptional forms of violence.
