COLLECTIVE MOBILIZATION AND IDENTITY FROM THE UNDERGROUND: The Deployment of "Oppositional Capital" in the Harm Reduction Movement

Wieloch, Neil

doi:10.1111/j.1533-8525.2001.tb02037.x

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“…Despite their preliminary nature, the findings of this research support a number of policy and programme recommendations. Firstly, echoing others who have suggested that health and social service sites are a primary location for stigma remediation, this research suggests that it is crucial to not only educate the staff serving vulnerable groups about stigma in service environments, but also to invest in employee wellness strategies that take into consideration the vulnerability of front‐line workers, particularly those with limited education and workplace autonomy (Lee et al 2005, Link et al 2008, Wieloch 2002). In addition to educating and supporting workers in specific sites where stigmatised groups are served it is also crucial to take a collaborative, inter‐sectoral and coalitional approach to stigma, not only because such an approach is likely to have a greater impact on public awareness and public policy, but also because it helps both to overcome the tendency for essentialist discourse to emerge regarding stigmatised identities, and to address more effectively the complex interconnections among processes of social and economic marginalisation (Scambler 2009).…”

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confidence: 56%

Courtesy stigma: a hidden health concern among front‐line service providers to sex workers

Phillips

Benoit

Hallgrímsdóttir

et al. 2011

Sociology Health & Illness

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Courtesy stigma, also referred to as 'stigma by association', involves public disapproval evoked as a consequence of associating with a stigmatised individual or group. While a small number of sociological studies have shown how courtesy stigma limits the social support and social opportunities available to family members of stigmatised individuals, there is a paucity of research examining courtesy stigma among the large network of people who provide health and social services to stigmatised groups. This article presents results from a mixed methods study of the workplace experiences of a purposive sample of workers in a nonprofit organisation providing services to sex workers in Canada. The findings demonstrate that courtesy stigma plays a role in workplace health as it shapes both the workplace environment, including the range of resources made available to staff to carry out their work activities, as well as staff perceptions of others' support. At the same time, it was evident that some workers were more vulnerable to courtesy stigma than others depending on their social location. We discuss these results in light of the existing literature on courtesy stigma and conclude that it is an under-studied determinant of workplace health among care providers serving socially denigrated groups.

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confidence: 56%

Courtesy stigma: a hidden health concern among front‐line service providers to sex workers

Phillips

Benoit

Hallgrímsdóttir

et al. 2011

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…The primary focus is on the deeper social, economic and racial inequality that the 'drug problem' masks. From this point of view, harm reduction is ideological and oppositional (Herkt, 1993;Crofts & Herkt, 1995;Jose et al, 1996;Balian & White, 1998;Livingston, 1999;Wieloch, 2002). On the other hand, most public and preventive health bodies see 'risk' and 'harm' as having an objective, factual existence that affects identifiable individuals, groups or populations in definable ways.…”

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Harm reduction as paradigm: Is better than bad good enough? The origins of harm reduction

Roe

2005

Critical Public Health

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As the articles in the recent special issue on harm reduction illustrate, the last decade has seen an impressive expansion of harm reduction in public health. Policies and programs using it have dramatically improved the formerly ignored health problems of marginalized populations. This article looks at the history of harm reduction, and the growing role that the medicalization of social and political problems plays in the governance of the margins in the neo-liberal state. It describes how the acceptance of harm reduction approaches coincided with a political need to address social disorder and reduce expense in health and legal services, and criticizes the current assumption that more harm reduction services will automatically result in a more humane society. While this paper supports those authors who urge a greater political engagement from harm reduction advocates in public health, it also urges a direct political critique of the social and legal systems that create harm, and the harm reduction research that critically examines how harm reduction, while aiming to prevent harm in the short term, may sustain systems of harm in a larger sense.

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“…Harm reduction certainly highlights this health-politics connection. It is an organized, if loose, coalition of individuals and organizations working both inside and beyond state institutions at local, national, and global scales to improve the health of people who use drugs, to make rights claims, and to change legal regulations, governance practices, and social attitudes toward users (Bluthenthal, 1998;Wieloch, 2002;VANDU, 2004VANDU, , 2010Friedman et al, 2007;Newcombe, 2007;Tempalski, 2007;Brown and Watson, 2009). …”

Section: Movements: Public Health Policy As Mobile Mutable and Politicalmentioning

confidence: 97%

Mobilizing drug consumption rooms: inter-place networks and harm reduction drug policy

McCann

Temenos

2015

Health & Place

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COLLECTIVE MOBILIZATION AND IDENTITY FROM THE UNDERGROUND: The Deployment of "Oppositional Capital" in the Harm Reduction Movement

Cited by 4 publications

References 24 publications

Courtesy stigma: a hidden health concern among front‐line service providers to sex workers

Courtesy stigma: a hidden health concern among front‐line service providers to sex workers

Harm reduction as paradigm: Is better than bad good enough? The origins of harm reduction

Mobilizing drug consumption rooms: inter-place networks and harm reduction drug policy

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