Hooray! It's the first of our episodes highlighting the work of our 2022 Pass The Mic travel grant recipients! Danielle Kabella works with communities in New Mexico that have historically had a complex relationship with substance use, recovery, and the legal system. Danielle's work focuses on recovery efforts of the past 50 years as a way to understand the changing relationship between recovery science, medicine, and the power of a community to re-shape that relationship.

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Find Danielle on Twitter @dmkabella

To learn more:

Drug Ethnographies

Michael Agar (1973) Ripping and Running: A Formal Ethnography of Urban Heroin Addicts

Philippe Bourgois (2003) In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio

& (2009) Righteous Dopefiend * is a photo essay

Angela Garcia (2010) The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande

Todd Meyer’s (2013) The Clinic and Elsewhere: Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy

Kelly Knight (2015) Pregnant. Addicted. Poor

Helena Hansen (2018) Addicted to Christ: Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug Ministries

& (2023) Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Heroin in America

Natasha Schull (2014) Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas * sts focused

Nancy Campbell (2020) OD: Naloxone And The Politics Of Overdose *not an ethnography, but a history of technology and very STS focused

Harm Reduction & other Organizations Danielle works with:

Sonoran Prevention Works (AZ)

Casa de Salud (NM) * 1st ethnographic study with McNair Program

Trans Queer Pueblo (AZ) bringing access to HRT/ primary care for migrants, etc.