Vitellone Nicole, Theodoropoulou Lena, Manchot Melanie
Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Int J Drug Policy. 2022 Sep;107:103618. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103618. Epub 2022 Mar 20.
This article investigates the methodological potential of interdisciplinary research to generate collective rather than interpretive or reflective knowledge practices for the study of recovery from addiction to drugs and alcohol. The question that informs this investigation of knowledge practices is how researchers participate in knowledge production and the possibility of building alternative interdisciplinary methods that connect experts to treatment services and service-users in new ways. In the first part, we trace and evaluate methodological debates on research methods in academic, professional and treatment service settings. In so doing we consider the role sociologists have played in engaging qualitative, quantitative and deconstructive methods for researching recovery from addiction, and the strengths and limitations of empirical and critical research methodologies in responding to drug policy on recovery. In the second part of the article, describing a research collaboration with the sociologists Nicole Vitellone and Lena Theodoropoulou, the visual artist and filmmaker Melanie Manchot, and research participants' from creative recovery services in Liverpool, we outline the possibilities offered by the concept of recovery as a minor practice to reconfigure the role of experts, methods, and participants in new collaborative lines of inquiry. Turning to observations of a set of cinema-based pilot workshops from 2019 and 2020 with people in recovery, we describe the effects and consequences of an interdisciplinary methodology for enabling a different way of thinking about recovery as a minor practice. In rethinking and reimagining recovery as a minor practice, the article provides a distinctive interdisciplinary approach for recovery-oriented practice and policy.
本文探讨跨学科研究在为药物和酒精成瘾康复研究生成集体性而非解释性或反思性知识实践方面的方法潜力。为这项知识实践调查提供依据的问题是，研究人员如何参与知识生产，以及构建替代性跨学科方法的可能性，这些方法能以新的方式将专家与治疗服务及服务使用者联系起来。在第一部分，我们追溯并评估学术、专业和治疗服务环境中关于研究方法的方法论辩论。在此过程中，我们考虑社会学家在运用定性、定量和解构性方法研究成瘾康复方面所发挥的作用，以及实证研究方法和批判性研究方法在应对成瘾康复药物政策方面的优势和局限性。在文章的第二部分，我们描述了与社会学家妮可·维泰洛内、莉娜·西奥多罗普洛、视觉艺术家兼电影制作人梅勒妮·曼乔特以及来自利物浦创意康复服务机构的研究参与者的合作研究，概述了将康复概念视为一种次要实践，为重新配置专家、方法和参与者在新的合作性探究方向中的角色所带来的可能性。通过对2019年和2020年为康复者举办的一系列基于电影的试点工作坊的观察，我们描述了一种跨学科方法所产生的效果和影响，这种方法能够促成以一种不同的方式将康复视为一种次要实践来思考。通过重新思考和重新想象将康复视为一种次要实践，本文为以康复为导向的实践和政策提供了一种独特的跨学科方法。
