La objetivación de la reducción de daños desde la perspectiva llamada “de las personas que usan de drogas".

Abstract

Objective: The goal of this research is to advance towards a definition of the perspective known as "of People who Use Drugs" (PUD). Methodology: The methodology in use is philosophical archaeology, which consists in the description of the system of formation of Harm Reduction as an object of the aforementioned perspective. Results and conclusion: The most characteristic rules of objectivation of the perspective "of People who Use Drugs" are that activism operates as a surface of emergence, testimony operates as an authority of delimitation, and agency operates as a grid of specification. The text introduces the problem to be dealt with and then introduces this methodology taking special detail in the most practical aspects of the procedure. Then the results of this archaeological analysis of two documents are presented: a comment on Harm Reduction and a policy report published by global networks of activists. The article concludes by approaching a definition of the perspective "of People who Use Drugs".

Keywords:

uso de drogas

trabajo sexual

arqueología filosófica

reducción de daños

activismo

drug use

sex work

archaeology of knowledge

harm reduction

activism

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