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Article: Translating Guān'ài in the People’s War on Drugs: Enacting Relations of Care in China’s State-Run Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program

TitleTranslating Guān'ài in the People’s War on Drugs: Enacting Relations of Care in China’s State-Run Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program
Authors
Keywordsaddiction
drug control
care
moral legitimacy
anthropology
Issue Date2020
PublisherDuke University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://easts.dukejournals.org/
Citation
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an international journal, 2020, v. 14, p. 1-24 How to Cite?
AbstractChina’s state-run methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) program was launched in 2003 in response to the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic and increasing criticism of compulsory rehabilitation centers. In conjunction with providing methadone replacement therapy, the Chinese state began promoting a politicized discourse of guān'ài 关爱 (care and love) as a more effective and humane method for dealing with drug users. While the medicalization of addiction as a chronic brain disease requiring long-term pharmaceutical treatment marked a watershed moment in the debate over drug control in China, the affective recasting of addiction as a social condition worthy of care is potentially even more revolutionary. But to what extent has this project transformed Chinese drug users into a legitimate target of (state) care? Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Yunnan province from 2013 to 2019, we examine how various stakeholders in China's MMT program (including methadone recipients, clinicians, public health officials, police officers, and the general public) have attempted to translate the discourse of guān'ài into workable practices and relationships based on divergent understandings of how to care for/about Chinese drug users. Our analysis shows how attending to the everyday dynamics of guān'ài in the People's War on Drugs provides a novel approach to theorizing the fraught politics of care.
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Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/279424
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2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.313
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dc.contributor.authorZhang, C-
dc.contributor.authorSong, P-
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-01T07:17:05Z-
dc.date.available2019-11-01T07:17:05Z-
dc.date.issued2020-
dc.identifier.citationEast Asian Science, Technology and Society: an international journal, 2020, v. 14, p. 1-24-
dc.identifier.issn1875-2160-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/279424-
dc.descriptionLink to Free access-
dc.description.abstractChina’s state-run methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) program was launched in 2003 in response to the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic and increasing criticism of compulsory rehabilitation centers. In conjunction with providing methadone replacement therapy, the Chinese state began promoting a politicized discourse of guān'ài 关爱 (care and love) as a more effective and humane method for dealing with drug users. While the medicalization of addiction as a chronic brain disease requiring long-term pharmaceutical treatment marked a watershed moment in the debate over drug control in China, the affective recasting of addiction as a social condition worthy of care is potentially even more revolutionary. But to what extent has this project transformed Chinese drug users into a legitimate target of (state) care? Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Yunnan province from 2013 to 2019, we examine how various stakeholders in China's MMT program (including methadone recipients, clinicians, public health officials, police officers, and the general public) have attempted to translate the discourse of guān'ài into workable practices and relationships based on divergent understandings of how to care for/about Chinese drug users. Our analysis shows how attending to the everyday dynamics of guān'ài in the People's War on Drugs provides a novel approach to theorizing the fraught politics of care.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherDuke University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://easts.dukejournals.org/-
dc.relation.ispartofEast Asian Science, Technology and Society: an international journal-
dc.rightsEast Asian Science, Technology and Society: an international journal. Copyright © Duke University Press.-
dc.subjectaddiction-
dc.subjectdrug control-
dc.subjectcare-
dc.subjectmoral legitimacy-
dc.subjectanthropology-
dc.titleTranslating Guān'ài in the People’s War on Drugs: Enacting Relations of Care in China’s State-Run Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailZhang, C: cxzhang@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.emailSong, P: songp@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authoritySong, P=rp02412-
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dc.identifier.doi10.1215/18752160-8233958-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-85083523717-
dc.identifier.hkuros308512-
dc.identifier.volume14-
dc.identifier.spage1-
dc.identifier.epage24-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000523357600005-
dc.publisher.placeUnited States-
dc.identifier.issnl1875-2152-

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