Narcotic Cities: Counter-Cartographies of Drugs and Spaces

Published by JOVIS Verlag GmbH 2023

Narcotic Cities

Counter-Cartographies of Drugs and Spaces

Edited by: Mélina Germes , Luise Klaus and Stefan Höhne

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783986120184

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About this book

With debates about the decriminalization of drugs on the rise, an exploration of drug maps is long overdue. Narcotic Cities traces the complex entanglements of drugs, institutions, activities, and the way they are represented with spaces and places, shedding new light on our cities. Through the medium of graphic essays, this book explores urban stories, as well as the histories, policies, communities, digital spaces, and pleasures associated with drugs, gathering together more than forty contributors working with Geographic Information Systems, hand drawings, satellite images, and memories. By experimenting with different graphic languages, this volume assembles a rich mosaic of multi-scalar urban perspectives on drugs, sharing little-known knowledge as well as reflections on the pitfalls, omissions, and failures of drug cartographies.

Author / Editor information

Mélina Germes is a social and urban geographer based in Bordeaux and Berlin. She is a permanent CNRS researcher at PASSAGES, Centre Emile Durkheim, and Centre Marc Bloch. In addition to critical cartography, her work focuses on topics ranging from urban policies in France and Germany to ableism and disability.

Stefan Höhne is an urban and cultural historian based in Berlin and Essen, where he works at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI). His research focuses on the entanglement of technology, governmentality, and everyday life in Europe and North America during the twentieth and twenty-first century.

Luise Klaus is a social geographer currently completing her PhD at the Goethe University Frankfurt. She studies the everyday lives of marginalized drug users in German cities using emotional mapping interviews. Her research focuses on the relationships between urban policies, criminalization, policing, and social work.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	4
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
Introduction Mélina Germes, Luise Klaus and Stefan Höhne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
Don’t Map Drugs! Mélina Germes and Luise Klaus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
DE-/RECONSTRUCTING
Numbering Babylon? Failed Attempts to Map British Drinking, 1817–1914 James Kneale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
What’s in a (Police) Drug Map? A German Example Bernd Belina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
Behind a Berlin Needle Map Mélina Germes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
The Hotspot An Exploration into the Mapping of Contaminated Urban Space Boris Michel and Frederieke Westerheide Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
Blanks in the Maps On the Relationship between Researchers, Participants, and their Maps Mélina Germes, Roxane Scavo and Anna Dichtl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
POLICIES AND SPACE
Coca, Cattle, and the Forest The Expansion of Coca Farming and Illicit Cattle Ranching in Colombia Paulo J. Murillo-Sandoval, John Kilbride and Beth Tellman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
Anti-Drug Vigilante Killings in the Philippines War on Drugs, Poverty, and Urbanity Francis Josef Gasgonia and Ragene Andrea Palma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
URBAN HISTORY
The Stockholm Smoking Bans Intoxicating Spaces in Early Modern Europe Hanna Hodacs and Sarah Falk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
Taverns, Clubs, and Homes Three Archetypes of Women Who Used Drugs in Nineteenthand Twentieth-Century Lisbon Cristiana Vale Pires Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
Media and the Dystopian City The Heroin “Crisis” in Madrid, 1980–1995 María José León Robles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
“Map of Junkie Mokum”. A Humanitarian Narrative of Amsterdam from 1992 Gemma Blok Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Small-Time Dealing Apartment-Based Heroin Dealers in Paris, 1968–2000 Aude Lalande Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
ONLINE GEOGRAPHIES
A Global Digital Market? On the Geography of “AlphaBay ” Meropi Tzanetakis and Kai Reisser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
Substantiated Spaces The Invisible Geographies of Erowid’s Vaults Francesca Valsecchi, Fabien Pfaender and Fire Erowid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Using Kratom Online and Local Stories of North Americans Elli Schwarz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
AMBIVALENT EMOTIONS
Counter-Addiction Stories Reflections from a Body Mapping Workshop in London Fay Dennis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
The Secret across the Street How Addiction Transgresses Lines and Breaks Bonds in a Belgian City Eli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
(Post-)Lockdown Mapping Drugs, Sociability, and Risks in Bogotá Maria Alejandra Medina, Vannesa Morris and Estefania Villamizar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
Party, Emotions, and Gender Mapping Festive Spaces of Consumption in Bordeaux Roxane Scavo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
Traces. Playing Hide-and-Seek with a Night Owl in a Large French City Roxane Scavo and Mélina Germes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
URBAN STRUGGLES
Displaced. The Denial of Public Space and Everyday Resistance in Milan Sonia Bergamo, María de los Ángeles Briones and Francesca Mauri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Open-Air Fumoirs Atypical Sociogeographical Places in Abidjan Jérôme Evanno and Ahouansou Stanislas Sonagnon Houndji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
Pyatak Drifters The Making of Social and Cultural Places in Ukrainian Cities Vladimir Stepanov and Alexandra Dmitrieva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
Weaving Drug Users’ Spaces of Care and Sociality in Vancouver and Paris Céline Debaulieu, Melora Koepke, Maddy Andrews, Elli Taylor and Lauren Dixon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
An Ideal City for Marginalized Drug Users in Germany? Luise Klaus and Mélina Germes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	310
Table of Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316
Imprint Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	320

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