INCOLLOCABILI. ANTROPOLOGIA APPLICATA IN CONTESTI DI DROGA E CRONICITÀ

This dissertation offers a contribution to the debate on drug anthropology and anthropology of social services, with a particular focus on their application in the field of drug abusers. Furthermore, it advances propositions on the professionalization of the discipline in these contexts. The question leading this research arises from a prior experience at a rehabilitation center for drug addicts located in the suburbs of Bologna, and from an additional fieldwork research among at-risk-subjects who autonomously assembled in a cultural association. Refusing the hierarchical approaches typical of drug treatments, this study aims at applying relational tools developed during the fieldwork drawing on the studies of the intentional community. For this reason, a second fieldwork was conducted in Arcosanti (USA), in order to learn and optimize the researcher’s toolbox. My work intends to use anthropology as a specialized expertise for the reconstruction of compromised social relationships, using the discipline’s distinctive methodologies in connection with those of other disciplines and professional approaches.