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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 ...
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  • 18 September 2023
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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.
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Price: $42.99
Pages: 320
Publisher: JOVIS
Imprint: JOVIS
Publication Date: 18 September 2023
ISBN: 9783986120009
Format: Paperback
BISACs: ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / General, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, City & town planning: architectural aspects, Street maps & city plans, Urban and municipal planning and policy
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Mélina Germes ist Sozial- und Stadtgeografin und lebt in Bordeaux und Berlin. Sie ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am CNRS (PASSAGES, Centre Émile Durkheim, Centre Marc Bloch). Neben ihrer Arbeit im Bereich der kritischen Kartografie befasst sie sich mit Themen wie Stadtpolitik in Frankreich und Deutschland sowie Behindertenfeindlichkeit und Barrierefreiheit.

Stefan Höhne ist Stadt- und Kulturhistoriker mit Sitz in Berlin und Essen. Sein Forschungsschwerpunkt am Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut (KWI) Essen liegt auf der Verflechtung von Technologie, Gouvernementalität und Alltagsleben in Europa und Nordamerika im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert.

Luise Klaus ist Sozialgeografin und promoviert derzeit an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. Sie untersucht den Alltag von marginalisierten Drogenkonsument*innen in deutschen Städten mithilfe von Emotional-Mapping-Interviews. Ihre Forschung konzentriert sich auf die Wechselwirkungen von Stadtpolitik, Kriminalisierung, Polizei- und Sozialarbeit.

8 Acknowledgments

12 Introduction

Melina Germes, Luise Klaus, and Stefan Hohne

22 Don’t Map Drugs!

Melina Germes and Luise Klaus

DE-/RECONSTRUCTING

42 Numbering Babylon?

Failed Attempts to Map British Drinking, 1817–1914

James Kneale

54 What’s in a (Police) Drug Map?

A German Example

Bernd Belina

60 Behind a Berlin Needle Map

Melina Germes

72 The Hotspot.

An Exploration into the Mapping of Contaminated Urban Space

Boris Michel and Frederieke Westerheide

84 Blanks in the Maps.

On the Relationship between Researchers, Participants, and their Maps

Melina Germes, Roxane Scavo, and Anna Dichtl

POLICIES AND SPACE

96 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

106 Anti-Drug Vigilante Killings in the Philippines.

War on Drugs, Poverty, and Urbanity

Francis Josef Gasgonia and Ragene Andrea Palma

URBAN HISTORY

122 The Stockholm Smoking Bans.

Intoxicating Spaces in Early Modern Europe

Hanna Hodacs and Sarah Falk

134 Taverns, Clubs, and Homes.

Three Archetypes of Women Who Used Drugs in Nineteenthand

Twentieth-Century Lisbon

Cristiana Vale Pires

142 Media and the Dystopian City.

The Heroin “Crisis” in Madrid, 1980–1995

Maria Jose Leon Robles

154 “Map of Junkie Mokum”.

A Humanitarian Narrative of Amsterdam from 1992

Gemma Blok

164 Small-Time Dealing.

Apartment-Based Heroin Dealers in Paris, 1968–2000

Aude Lalande

 ONLINE GEOGRAPHIES

174 A Global Digital Market?

About the Geography of “AlphaBay”

Meropi Tzanetakis and Kai Reisser

182 Substantiated Spaces.

The Invisible Geographies of Erowid’s Vaults

Francesca Valsecchi, Fabien Pfaender, and Fire Erowid

194 Using Kratom.

Online and Local Stories of North Americans

Elli Schwarz

AMBIVALENT EMOTIONS

208 Counter-Addiction Stories.

Reflections from a Body Mapping Workshop in London

Fay Dennis

218 The Secret across the Street.

How Addiction Transgresses Lines and Breaks Bonds in a Belgian City

Eli

224 (Post-)Lockdown Mapping.

Drugs, Sociability, and Risks in Bogota

Maria Alejandra Medina, Vannesa Morris,

and Estefania Villamizar, Echele Cabeza collective

234 Party, Emotions, and Gender.

Mapping Festive Spaces of Consumption in Bordeaux

Roxane Scavo

244 Traces.

Playing Hide-and-Seek with a Night Owl in a Large French City

Roxane Scavo and Melina Germes

URBAN STRUGGLES

254 Displaced.

The Denial of Public Space and Everyday Resistance in Milan

Sonia Bergamo, Maria de los Angeles Briones, and Francesca Mauri

266 Open-Air Fumoirs.

Atypical Socio-geographical Places in Abidjan

Jerome Evanno and Ahouansou Stanislas Sonagnon Houndji

274 Pyatak Drifters.

The Making of Social and Cultural Places in Ukrainian Cities

Vladimir Stepanov and Alexandra Dmitrieva

286 Weaving Drug Users’ Spaces of Care and Sociality in Vancouver

and Paris

Celine Debaulieu, Melora Koepke, Maddy Andrews, Elli Taylor,

and Lauren Dixon, SoCS Collective

298 An Ideal City for Marginalized Drug Users in Germany?

Luise Klaus and Melina Germes

310 Contributors

316 Table of Figures

320 Imprint