Aleksandra Bartoszko
Biographic Data
| ID | 334324 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aleksandra Bartoszko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aleksandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Bartoszko |
| SIGNATURE | BARTOSZKO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | VID Specialized University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2919-545X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Escape Capital
This article provides a novel perspective on the phenomenon of youths running away from Norwegian residential childcare institutions, challenging conventional views that attribute such actions to delinquency or pathology. By adopting an experience-near approach, we explore escapes as demonstrations of creative agency and resilience, rather than mere acts of defiance. Drawing on staff observations and accounts from young residents, the study highl…
Institutional escapes, breaks, and continuities
This article offers a novel approach to understand the phenomenon of running away from residential care institutions, challenging prevailing views that pathologize these incidents as individual deviance. Drawing on insights from the sociology of escape and Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts of rhizome and lines of escape, we examine spatial, temporal, and relational dimensions of institutions, revealing the porous nature of institutional boundaries …
Dangerous Individuals
What role do user-generated GIFs (Graphics Interchange Format) have in social media and how do they contribute to distorted representations of genocides? This article analyses the availability of GIFs in Facebook Messenger in light of Facebook’s own Community Standards that prohibit the sharing of content with references to “dangerous individuals.” The company explicitly proscribes the representation of perpetrator(s) of multiple-victim violence.…
The translation of humanity into prison design
Prison architecture reflects the ideas and values of a penal policy, providing insights into punishment philosophies. In Norway, normalisation, resettlement and dynamic security norms have shaped correctional care. Based on a mixed method study, this article examines how these norms are translated into “Model 2015” prisons. Despite spaces for positive prisoner relationships, the design faces challenges in escaping pervasive systems of control and…
Shadow Committees
Until recently, Norway remained immovable on its conservative policy that illegal drug use is a crime. In 2018, the Health Minister appointed an inquiry commission to design a less restrictive drug policy, which included two “drug user representatives.” But the Minister’s choices for these posts met massive dissatisfaction from some drug users who contended that the representatives “are not real drug users” and do not “speak for” nor “act on the …
Patient Is the New Black
In this essay, I challenge the ways in which global drug policy initiatives call for more humane drug policy and decriminalization. Although these initiatives promote human dignity and agency, they also encourage a particular approach to drug use and addiction. Embracing patientism in their liberating narratives of 'treatment, not punishment,' these voices take for granted the advantages of their proposed approach. Drawing on my experiences with …
Fallen Agents
Based on an ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how patients in a Norwegian heroin-addiction treatment program negotiate their agency, navigating between policies, medical guidelines, and their own lived experiences as they seek what they perceive as appropriate medication. Outlining these patients' participation in treatment inside and outside the clinic, I illustrate that different types of agency are involved across these domains. I …
The Lethal Burden of Survival
Patients in opioid substitution treatment (OST) in Norway are assigned a treatment modality based on their risk profiles, with an emphasis on overdose risk. One of several medications may be administered, including methadone, buprenorphine, buprenorphine–naloxone, and occasionally morphine. OST patients who are not satisfied with the assigned treatment are required to negotiate with OST staff to switch treatment modalities. During these negotiati…
From Hope to §3-1
This article offers insights into the subjectivities that emerge as patients negotiate treatment modalities in Norwegian opioid substitution treatment (OST). In the accounts, I explore patients’ growing engagements with legal imaginaries, and highlight the transformative powers of the law, to develop a concept of the legal self. The analysis shows the power of the law in an imagination of harm and the ways in which the law impacts social and pers…
Shadow Committees
Until recently, Norway remained immovable on its conservative policy that illegal drug use is a crime. In 2018, the Health Minister appointed an inquiry commission to design a less restrictive drug policy, which included two “drug user representatives.” But the Minister’s choices for these posts met massive dissatisfaction from some drug users who contended that the representatives “are not real drug users” and do not “speak for” nor “act on the …
The Lethal Burden of Survival
Patients in opioid substitution treatment (OST) in Norway are assigned a treatment modality based on their risk profiles, with an emphasis on overdose risk. One of several medications may be administered, including methadone, buprenorphine, buprenorphine–naloxone, and occasionally morphine. OST patients who are not satisfied with the assigned treatment are required to negotiate with OST staff to switch treatment modalities. During these negotiati…
Dangerous Individuals
What role do user-generated GIFs (Graphics Interchange Format) have in social media and how do they contribute to distorted representations of genocides? This article analyses the availability of GIFs in Facebook Messenger in light of Facebook’s own Community Standards that prohibit the sharing of content with references to “dangerous individuals.” The company explicitly proscribes the representation of perpetrator(s) of multiple-victim violence.…
The translation of humanity into prison design
Prison architecture reflects the ideas and values of a penal policy, providing insights into punishment philosophies. In Norway, normalisation, resettlement and dynamic security norms have shaped correctional care. Based on a mixed method study, this article examines how these norms are translated into “Model 2015” prisons. Despite spaces for positive prisoner relationships, the design faces challenges in escaping pervasive systems of control and…
Patient Is the New Black
In this essay, I challenge the ways in which global drug policy initiatives call for more humane drug policy and decriminalization. Although these initiatives promote human dignity and agency, they also encourage a particular approach to drug use and addiction. Embracing patientism in their liberating narratives of 'treatment, not punishment,' these voices take for granted the advantages of their proposed approach. Drawing on my experiences with …
Fallen Agents
Based on an ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how patients in a Norwegian heroin-addiction treatment program negotiate their agency, navigating between policies, medical guidelines, and their own lived experiences as they seek what they perceive as appropriate medication. Outlining these patients' participation in treatment inside and outside the clinic, I illustrate that different types of agency are involved across these domains. I …
The Lethal Burden of Survival
Patients in opioid substitution treatment (OST) in Norway are assigned a treatment modality based on their risk profiles, with an emphasis on overdose risk. One of several medications may be administered, including methadone, buprenorphine, buprenorphine–naloxone, and occasionally morphine. OST patients who are not satisfied with the assigned treatment are required to negotiate with OST staff to switch treatment modalities. During these negotiati…
From Hope to §3-1
This article offers insights into the subjectivities that emerge as patients negotiate treatment modalities in Norwegian opioid substitution treatment (OST). In the accounts, I explore patients’ growing engagements with legal imaginaries, and highlight the transformative powers of the law, to develop a concept of the legal self. The analysis shows the power of the law in an imagination of harm and the ways in which the law impacts social and pers…
Patient Is the New Black
In this essay, I challenge the ways in which global drug policy initiatives call for more humane drug policy and decriminalization. Although these initiatives promote human dignity and agency, they also encourage a particular approach to drug use and addiction. Embracing patientism in their liberating narratives of 'treatment, not punishment,' these voices take for granted the advantages of their proposed approach. Drawing on my experiences with …
Fallen Agents
Based on an ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how patients in a Norwegian heroin-addiction treatment program negotiate their agency, navigating between policies, medical guidelines, and their own lived experiences as they seek what they perceive as appropriate medication. Outlining these patients' participation in treatment inside and outside the clinic, I illustrate that different types of agency are involved across these domains. I …
Shadow Committees
Until recently, Norway remained immovable on its conservative policy that illegal drug use is a crime. In 2018, the Health Minister appointed an inquiry commission to design a less restrictive drug policy, which included two “drug user representatives.” But the Minister’s choices for these posts met massive dissatisfaction from some drug users who contended that the representatives “are not real drug users” and do not “speak for” nor “act on the …
The translation of humanity into prison design
Prison architecture reflects the ideas and values of a penal policy, providing insights into punishment philosophies. In Norway, normalisation, resettlement and dynamic security norms have shaped correctional care. Based on a mixed method study, this article examines how these norms are translated into “Model 2015” prisons. Despite spaces for positive prisoner relationships, the design faces challenges in escaping pervasive systems of control and…
Dangerous Individuals
What role do user-generated GIFs (Graphics Interchange Format) have in social media and how do they contribute to distorted representations of genocides? This article analyses the availability of GIFs in Facebook Messenger in light of Facebook’s own Community Standards that prohibit the sharing of content with references to “dangerous individuals.” The company explicitly proscribes the representation of perpetrator(s) of multiple-victim violence.…
Escape Capital
This article provides a novel perspective on the phenomenon of youths running away from Norwegian residential childcare institutions, challenging conventional views that attribute such actions to delinquency or pathology. By adopting an experience-near approach, we explore escapes as demonstrations of creative agency and resilience, rather than mere acts of defiance. Drawing on staff observations and accounts from young residents, the study highl…
Institutional escapes, breaks, and continuities
This article offers a novel approach to understand the phenomenon of running away from residential care institutions, challenging prevailing views that pathologize these incidents as individual deviance. Drawing on insights from the sociology of escape and Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts of rhizome and lines of escape, we examine spatial, temporal, and relational dimensions of institutions, revealing the porous nature of institutional boundaries …
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Norwegian (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)