Browsing VID:Open by Author "Bartoszko, Aleksandra"
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Accelerating curve of anxiousness: How a governmental quarantine-app feeds society with bugs
Bartoszko, Aleksandra (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Daily, media reports on countries eagerly introducing advanced surveillance technology to counter the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g. Byers 2020, Doffman 2020; Holmes 2020, Stojanovski 2020). The critics and commentators focus – ... -
Editorial "Treating addictions. On failures, harms, and hopes of success"
Bartoszko, Aleksandra; Christensen, Paul (Journal article, 2019)Treating Addictions is a special issue that emerged out of conference panels at the 117th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in 2018, San Jose, California. The panels, titled Questioning ... -
Fallen agents: negotiations of patient agency in Norwegian opioid substitution treatment
Bartoszko, Aleksandra (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Based on an ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how patients in a Norwegian heroin-addiction treatment program negotiate their agency, navigating between policies, medical guidelines, and their own lived experiences ... -
Graphic possibilities: Ethnographic Comic Book about Hepatitis C and injecting drug use
Bartoszko, Aleksandra (Journal article, 2019)This essay is devoted to a communicating potential of graphic ethnography. ‘The Virus’ is an ethnographic comic book about injecting drug use and hepatitis C, based on a long-term fieldwork in Norway. I elaborate on why I ... -
Patient is the new black. Treatmentality and resistance toward patientization
Bartoszko, Aleksandra (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)In this essay, I challenge the ways in which global drug policy initiatives call for more humane drug policy and decriminalization. Although these initiatives promote human dignity and agency, they also encourage a particular ... -
Polluting pharmaceutical atmospheres: Compulsion, resistance, and symbolism of buprenorphine in Norway
Bartoszko, Aleksandra (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article offers a counter narrative to the current ethnographic studies on treatment with buprenorphine, in which notions of promised and experienced normality dominate. In some countries, introduction of buprenorphine ...