Nicole Vitellone
Biographic Data
| ID | 337733 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole Vitellone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole |
| FAMILY NAME | Vitellone |
| SIGNATURE | VITELLONE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0826-5973 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The social life of creative methods
In this article we consider the theoretical and methodological implications of Deleuzian fabulation for research on recovery from drugs and alcohol as an alternative way of making and doing methods in sociology. The article draws on data produced as part of an ongoing interdisciplinary research collaboration, begun in 2019, with the visual artist and filmmaker Melanie Manchot, social scientists Nicole Vitellone and Lena Theodoropoulou, and people…
A conversation about recovery and political activism
Recovery as a minor practice
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 tre…
Practising recovery
Sociography of a curious object
The implications of sociography for thinking with global environmental problems are foregrounded by Bruno Latour in Down to Earth . In order to deal with the metamorphosis of the world and take into account multiplying viewpoints, Latour argues sociologists must shift the focus of enquiry from theoretical analyses of environmental problems to descriptions of the existence of environmental issues in experimental settings, local shared spaces and c…
Sociology and the problem of description
Howard Becker's practice of description has been debated, critiqued and reclaimed in a range of fields including sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, Science & Technology Studies, critical drug studies and more recently Heather Love's (2015) appraisal of deviance studies. Much of this debate concerns the uses of social research methods and their political effects. Taking up these issues with the construction of social scientific knowledge i…
Doing things with description
In a number of linked articles and monographs over the last decade (e.g. Love, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017), literary scholar and critic Heather Love has called for a descriptive (re)turn in the humanities, repeatedly taking up examples of descriptive methods in the social sciences as exemplifying what that (re)turn might look like and achieve. Those of us working as sociologists, anthropologists, science and technology studies scholars and rese…
Situating the syringe
Syringe sociology
In this article I consider the impact of social epistemologies for understanding the object of the syringe. My aim is to examine the process through which the syringe transforms from an injecting device to a tool of social and political inquiry. Paying particular attention to the uses ofFoucault,Becker,Bourdieu,Freud andLatour in empirical studies of injecting heroin use, I examine the sociology of the syringe through the lens of habit and habitu…
The empirical war on drugs
The science of the syringe
Contesting Compassion
This paper investigates the political possibilities and limitations of compassion. My aim is to consider how and under what conditions compassion is elicited and whether such emotions can institute social transformation. Whilst compassion is understood to be located in political and cultural contexts, this paper investigates the extent to which compassion shapes those contexts in terms of political imaginaries. Drawing on the work of Bourdieu I c…
Just Another Night in the Shooting Gallery
In his ethnography of the shooting gallery Phillipe Bourgois interprets the comment "I started shooting heroin at 14, now I'm 64" as an indication that his respondent's "oppression is fully internalised and, almost like a neo-liberal ideologue, he takes full responsibility for his poverty, illiteracy and homelessness" (1998 Theory, Culture and Society 15). In this paper I consider whether this interpretation adequately gets to grips with a lifeti…
Habitus and Social Suffering
The Syringe as a Prosthetic
In this article I examine the significance of the syringe in relation to everyday drug-taking practices, especially in regard to the constitution of gender identity and heterosexuality. Such an exploration of the syringe will be conducted via a review of empirical literature on drug-injecting practices. This investigation of the syringe is informed by contemporary social and cultural theory on objects. By considering the performativity of the syr…
The Rush
This paper considers the object of the syringe-in-use for IV drug users. Via an engagement with performative stories of the “rush” I suggest this object experience concerns not a conditioned effect but the materiality of the syringe itself. I also suggest that an analysis of the rush as a technical materialization challenges existing interpretations of heroin use. In particular, it challenges understandings of the syringe as an object that threat…
I Think It More of a White Persons Sort of Awareness
(2002). 'I Think It More of a White Persons Sort of Awareness': Condoms and the Making of a White Nation in Media Representations of Safer (Hetero)sex. Feminist Media Studies: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 19-36
Condoms and the Making of Sexual Differences in Aids Heterosexual Culture
In feminist analyses of HIV/AIDS and heterosexuality it is often suggested that the constitution of sexual difference and gender concerns the specific image of heterosexual women's bodies. Such understandings of power and embodiment are especially at play in analyses of safer-(hetero)sex advertisements where the object of the condom is considered to represent a diseased female body. But while the object of the condom in AIDS heterosexual culture …
Watching Aids, Condoms and Serial Killers in the Australian 'Grim Reaper' TV Campaign
Watching Aids, Condoms and Serial Killers in the Australian 'Grim Reaper' TV Campaign
Books Reviewed
Condoms and the Making of 'Testosterone Man
Heterosexual men's apparent aversion to wearing condoms in AIDS culture has lead a range of analysts and researchers to ask why this is the case. Many feminists have suggested that the answer to this question lies in the way the practice of unsafe heterosex-without condoms-is key for the constitution of a hegemonic heterosexual masculine self-identity. Moreover, it is often argued that what is at issue for understanding the practice of unsafe het…
What do gay men want
The Syringe as a Prosthetic
In this article I examine the significance of the syringe in relation to everyday drug-taking practices, especially in regard to the constitution of gender identity and heterosexuality. Such an exploration of the syringe will be conducted via a review of empirical literature on drug-injecting practices. This investigation of the syringe is informed by contemporary social and cultural theory on objects. By considering the performativity of the syr…
Just Another Night in the Shooting Gallery
In his ethnography of the shooting gallery Phillipe Bourgois interprets the comment "I started shooting heroin at 14, now I'm 64" as an indication that his respondent's "oppression is fully internalised and, almost like a neo-liberal ideologue, he takes full responsibility for his poverty, illiteracy and homelessness" (1998 Theory, Culture and Society 15). In this paper I consider whether this interpretation adequately gets to grips with a lifeti…
Contesting Compassion
This paper investigates the political possibilities and limitations of compassion. My aim is to consider how and under what conditions compassion is elicited and whether such emotions can institute social transformation. Whilst compassion is understood to be located in political and cultural contexts, this paper investigates the extent to which compassion shapes those contexts in terms of political imaginaries. Drawing on the work of Bourdieu I c…
Condoms and the Making of 'Testosterone Man
Heterosexual men's apparent aversion to wearing condoms in AIDS culture has lead a range of analysts and researchers to ask why this is the case. Many feminists have suggested that the answer to this question lies in the way the practice of unsafe heterosex-without condoms-is key for the constitution of a hegemonic heterosexual masculine self-identity. Moreover, it is often argued that what is at issue for understanding the practice of unsafe het…
The science of the syringe
Doing things with description
In a number of linked articles and monographs over the last decade (e.g. Love, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017), literary scholar and critic Heather Love has called for a descriptive (re)turn in the humanities, repeatedly taking up examples of descriptive methods in the social sciences as exemplifying what that (re)turn might look like and achieve. Those of us working as sociologists, anthropologists, science and technology studies scholars and rese…
Habitus and Social Suffering
The Rush
This paper considers the object of the syringe-in-use for IV drug users. Via an engagement with performative stories of the “rush” I suggest this object experience concerns not a conditioned effect but the materiality of the syringe itself. I also suggest that an analysis of the rush as a technical materialization challenges existing interpretations of heroin use. In particular, it challenges understandings of the syringe as an object that threat…
Syringe sociology
In this article I consider the impact of social epistemologies for understanding the object of the syringe. My aim is to examine the process through which the syringe transforms from an injecting device to a tool of social and political inquiry. Paying particular attention to the uses ofFoucault,Becker,Bourdieu,Freud andLatour in empirical studies of injecting heroin use, I examine the sociology of the syringe through the lens of habit and habitu…
I Think It More of a White Persons Sort of Awareness
(2002). 'I Think It More of a White Persons Sort of Awareness': Condoms and the Making of a White Nation in Media Representations of Safer (Hetero)sex. Feminist Media Studies: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 19-36
Watching Aids, Condoms and Serial Killers in the Australian 'Grim Reaper' TV Campaign
Condoms and the Making of Sexual Differences in Aids Heterosexual Culture
In feminist analyses of HIV/AIDS and heterosexuality it is often suggested that the constitution of sexual difference and gender concerns the specific image of heterosexual women's bodies. Such understandings of power and embodiment are especially at play in analyses of safer-(hetero)sex advertisements where the object of the condom is considered to represent a diseased female body. But while the object of the condom in AIDS heterosexual culture …
Condoms and the Making of 'Testosterone Man
Heterosexual men's apparent aversion to wearing condoms in AIDS culture has lead a range of analysts and researchers to ask why this is the case. Many feminists have suggested that the answer to this question lies in the way the practice of unsafe heterosex-without condoms-is key for the constitution of a hegemonic heterosexual masculine self-identity. Moreover, it is often argued that what is at issue for understanding the practice of unsafe het…
Watching Aids, Condoms and Serial Killers in the Australian 'Grim Reaper' TV Campaign
Watching Aids, Condoms and Serial Killers in the Australian 'Grim Reaper' TV Campaign
Books Reviewed
I Think It More of a White Persons Sort of Awareness
(2002). 'I Think It More of a White Persons Sort of Awareness': Condoms and the Making of a White Nation in Media Representations of Safer (Hetero)sex. Feminist Media Studies: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 19-36
Condoms and the Making of Sexual Differences in Aids Heterosexual Culture
In feminist analyses of HIV/AIDS and heterosexuality it is often suggested that the constitution of sexual difference and gender concerns the specific image of heterosexual women's bodies. Such understandings of power and embodiment are especially at play in analyses of safer-(hetero)sex advertisements where the object of the condom is considered to represent a diseased female body. But while the object of the condom in AIDS heterosexual culture …
The Syringe as a Prosthetic
In this article I examine the significance of the syringe in relation to everyday drug-taking practices, especially in regard to the constitution of gender identity and heterosexuality. Such an exploration of the syringe will be conducted via a review of empirical literature on drug-injecting practices. This investigation of the syringe is informed by contemporary social and cultural theory on objects. By considering the performativity of the syr…
The Rush
This paper considers the object of the syringe-in-use for IV drug users. Via an engagement with performative stories of the “rush” I suggest this object experience concerns not a conditioned effect but the materiality of the syringe itself. I also suggest that an analysis of the rush as a technical materialization challenges existing interpretations of heroin use. In particular, it challenges understandings of the syringe as an object that threat…
Habitus and Social Suffering
Just Another Night in the Shooting Gallery
In his ethnography of the shooting gallery Phillipe Bourgois interprets the comment "I started shooting heroin at 14, now I'm 64" as an indication that his respondent's "oppression is fully internalised and, almost like a neo-liberal ideologue, he takes full responsibility for his poverty, illiteracy and homelessness" (1998 Theory, Culture and Society 15). In this paper I consider whether this interpretation adequately gets to grips with a lifeti…
The science of the syringe
Contesting Compassion
This paper investigates the political possibilities and limitations of compassion. My aim is to consider how and under what conditions compassion is elicited and whether such emotions can institute social transformation. Whilst compassion is understood to be located in political and cultural contexts, this paper investigates the extent to which compassion shapes those contexts in terms of political imaginaries. Drawing on the work of Bourdieu I c…
The empirical war on drugs
Syringe sociology
In this article I consider the impact of social epistemologies for understanding the object of the syringe. My aim is to examine the process through which the syringe transforms from an injecting device to a tool of social and political inquiry. Paying particular attention to the uses ofFoucault,Becker,Bourdieu,Freud andLatour in empirical studies of injecting heroin use, I examine the sociology of the syringe through the lens of habit and habitu…
Situating the syringe
Sociology and the problem of description
Howard Becker's practice of description has been debated, critiqued and reclaimed in a range of fields including sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, Science & Technology Studies, critical drug studies and more recently Heather Love's (2015) appraisal of deviance studies. Much of this debate concerns the uses of social research methods and their political effects. Taking up these issues with the construction of social scientific knowledge i…
Doing things with description
In a number of linked articles and monographs over the last decade (e.g. Love, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017), literary scholar and critic Heather Love has called for a descriptive (re)turn in the humanities, repeatedly taking up examples of descriptive methods in the social sciences as exemplifying what that (re)turn might look like and achieve. Those of us working as sociologists, anthropologists, science and technology studies scholars and rese…
A conversation about recovery and political activism
Recovery as a minor practice
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 tre…
Practising recovery
Sociography of a curious object
The implications of sociography for thinking with global environmental problems are foregrounded by Bruno Latour in Down to Earth . In order to deal with the metamorphosis of the world and take into account multiplying viewpoints, Latour argues sociologists must shift the focus of enquiry from theoretical analyses of environmental problems to descriptions of the existence of environmental issues in experimental settings, local shared spaces and c…
What do gay men want
The social life of creative methods
In this article we consider the theoretical and methodological implications of Deleuzian fabulation for research on recovery from drugs and alcohol as an alternative way of making and doing methods in sociology. The article draws on data produced as part of an ongoing interdisciplinary research collaboration, begun in 2019, with the visual artist and filmmaker Melanie Manchot, social scientists Nicole Vitellone and Lena Theodoropoulou, and people…
Sociology (21 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (6 works)