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18 September 2023

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