TY - JOUR
T1 - Punish and Cure
T2 - Forced Detox Camps, Reeducation through Labour and the Contradictions of China’s War on Drugs
AU - Zoccatelli, Giulia
PY - 2019/9
Y1 - 2019/9
N2 - By drawing on the life histories of 20 former and current heroin and methadone users in Yunnan Province, this essay explores the history, the logic, and the functioning of China’s anti-drugs camps. It shows how the tight intertwining of public health and public security models to fight against drug use has given rise to a contradictory policy landscape, whereby medical support always coincides with physical violence, social exclusion, and continuous surveillance of the bodies and the movements of Chinese addicts.
AB - By drawing on the life histories of 20 former and current heroin and methadone users in Yunnan Province, this essay explores the history, the logic, and the functioning of China’s anti-drugs camps. It shows how the tight intertwining of public health and public security models to fight against drug use has given rise to a contradictory policy landscape, whereby medical support always coincides with physical violence, social exclusion, and continuous surveillance of the bodies and the movements of Chinese addicts.
KW - Drug policy
KW - China
U2 - 10.22459/MIC.04.03.2019
DO - 10.22459/MIC.04.03.2019
M3 - Article
SN - 2206-9119
VL - 4
JO - Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights
JF - Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights
IS - 3
ER -
