Hope, choice and the improvable self: A critical analysis of "new recovery" in Australia – PhD Project

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  • Project status: Completed
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  • Completion date: November 2017
  • Funded by: NHMRC scholarship
  • Lead organisation: Curtin University

Drawing on science and technology studies, this thesis analyses how ‘new recovery’ is enacted in Australian alcohol and other drug policy, psychological science and treatment, and the extent to which authoritative enactments of recovery inform individuals’ lives. It argues that there exist important threads of continuity with older forms of recovery, most notably, in the neoliberal politics of responsibilisation, erasure of socio-political forces, and continuing stigmatisation of people who use drugs and their social relationships.

Dr Renae Fomiatti
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Professor David Moore
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Professor Suzanne Fraser
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Fomiatti, R. (2019). ‘It’s good being part of the community and doing the right thing’: (Re)problematising ‘community’ in new recovery-oriented policy and consumer accounts. International Journal of Drug Policy, 80. doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.04.007 [RJ1464] View web page

Fomiatti, R., Moore, D. and Fraser, S. (2018). The improvable self: Enacting model citizenship and sociality in research on ‘new recovery’. Addiction Research & Theory, 27, (6), pp. 527-538. doi:10.1080/16066359.2018.1544624 [RJ1414] View web page

Fomiatti, R., Moore, D. and Fraser, S. (2017). Interpellating recovery: The politics of 'identity' in recovery-focused treatment. International Journal of Drug Policy, 44, pp. 174-182. doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.04.001 [RJ1295] View web page