VID Specialized University, Oslo, Norway.
Health Promot Pract. 2021 Dec;22(2_suppl):9S-22S. doi: 10.1177/15248399211041075. Epub 2021 Oct 19.
This article describes a process of creating an ethnographic comic about injection drug use and hepatitis C, based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Norway. The project and the graphic publication titled The Virus were a collaboration between a social anthropologist, a graphic artist, and individuals who inject illegal drugs and are aimed at reducing bodily, social, and narrative harms related to drug use. The article argues that structurally informed interventions, such as this project, which account for the social, economic, and epistemological inequalities, benefit from taking phenomenological perspectives seriously. In our case, that attitude meant including participants' positive associations with their current or former heroin and injecting drug usage, their stigmatized desires, and their emotions-such as love-related to the disease. The article describes the narrative, conceptual, aesthetic, and practical choices encountered in making The Virus to confront the dominant, authorized narratives in the field of drug use and hepatitis C. We sought to make choices that ultimately would not contribute to the (re)production of the very object of the prevention-stigma related to hepatitis C-but instead would create a new narrative(s) that forged a sense of purpose, recognition, and humanity.
本文描述了一个将有关注射吸毒和丙型肝炎的民族志漫画创作过程，该过程基于在挪威进行的长期民族志实地调查。这个项目和名为《病毒》的图形出版物是一位社会人类学家、一位图形艺术家以及注射非法药物的个人之间的合作，旨在减少与药物使用相关的身体、社会和叙述伤害。本文认为，结构上的干预措施，如这个项目，考虑到社会、经济和认识论的不平等，从认真对待现象学观点中受益。在我们的案例中，这种态度意味着包括参与者对当前或过去使用海洛因和注射毒品的积极联想、他们被污名化的欲望以及与疾病相关的情感，如与爱有关的情感。本文描述了在制作《病毒》时遇到的叙事、概念、美学和实践选择，以应对药物使用和丙型肝炎领域中占主导地位的、授权的叙述。我们试图做出选择，这些选择最终不会导致（重新）产生预防丙型肝炎相关污名化的对象，而是会创造新的叙述，从而形成目的感、认同感和人性感。
