Necropolitics of the North: A rapid ethnography examining the effects of the closure of one of Northern Ontario’s only supervised consumption sites
The SCS closure has exacerbated already limited support for PWUD in Sudbury and increased their exposure to a variety of risks and harms. Necropolitics of the state deem PWUD as unworthy of living, resulting in structural violence and the creation of death worlds for PWUD.
Authors
- Jean Michaud (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3883-4484)
- Emily Groot
- D. William Cameron (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0090-3539)
- Geoff Bardwell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3368-7681)
- Lucas Tucker
- Amreetha Jayathilake
- Amber Fritz
- Heidi Eisenhauer
- Francisco Ibáñez-Carasco
- Brooke Legault
- Guy Seguin
- Kaela Pelland
Institutions
- University of Waterloo (CA)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Health Sciences North (CA)
- Canadian Respiratory Research Network (CA)
- Public Health Ontario (CA)
- NOSM University (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal of Drug Policy
- Published
- 2025-06-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.104869
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.71
Funders
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research