Sarah Whetstone
Biographic Data
| ID | 339138 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Whetstone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Whetstone |
| SIGNATURE | WHETSTONE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3083-8149 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Consuming Bodies: Body Commodification and Embodiment in Late Capitalist Societies
Addiction Doesn't Discriminate: Colorblind Racism in American Rehab
Drawing on ethnography and interviews with recovering men in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, this study explores how two dominant models of American rehab are racialized - coerced treatment theorizing addiction as criminal personality-and a more medicalized, voluntaristic model rooted in the brain disease paradigm. At the 'carceral rehab' of 'Arcadia House,' staff assumed its majority court-mandated, poor men of color would arrive resistant to reform…
Recovering Whiteness in Medical‐Restorative Rehab
We present an ethnography of a highly medicalized rehab for stably employed, non‐criminalized men in Minnesota—arguing that while its style of rehab is universalized in popular accounts, it actually represents a case of distinctly white, middle‐class self‐reinvention within the broader field of US addiction treatment. “Medical‐restorative rehab” at “Healing Bridges” offered Twelve‐Step treatment, popular addiction science, and medication‐based th…
Making the criminal addict: Subjectivity and social control in a strong-arm rehab
The mandatory, state-subsidized treatment opened up by drug courts and other jail and prison diversion programs have massively expanded the numbers of the nation’s poor and working class who are labeled addicts and sent to rehab, making drug rehabilitation a primary site for the re-socialization and control of the poor. Drawing on ethnographic and interview data, this article examines the institutional form at the center of this process: the ‘str…
Addiction, agency, and the politics of self-control: Doing harm reduction in a heroin users' group
Making the criminal addict: Subjectivity and social control in a strong-arm rehab
The mandatory, state-subsidized treatment opened up by drug courts and other jail and prison diversion programs have massively expanded the numbers of the nation’s poor and working class who are labeled addicts and sent to rehab, making drug rehabilitation a primary site for the re-socialization and control of the poor. Drawing on ethnographic and interview data, this article examines the institutional form at the center of this process: the ‘str…
Addiction, agency, and the politics of self-control: Doing harm reduction in a heroin users' group
Addiction Doesn't Discriminate: Colorblind Racism in American Rehab
Drawing on ethnography and interviews with recovering men in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, this study explores how two dominant models of American rehab are racialized - coerced treatment theorizing addiction as criminal personality-and a more medicalized, voluntaristic model rooted in the brain disease paradigm. At the 'carceral rehab' of 'Arcadia House,' staff assumed its majority court-mandated, poor men of color would arrive resistant to reform…
Recovering Whiteness in Medical‐Restorative Rehab
We present an ethnography of a highly medicalized rehab for stably employed, non‐criminalized men in Minnesota—arguing that while its style of rehab is universalized in popular accounts, it actually represents a case of distinctly white, middle‐class self‐reinvention within the broader field of US addiction treatment. “Medical‐restorative rehab” at “Healing Bridges” offered Twelve‐Step treatment, popular addiction science, and medication‐based th…
Making the criminal addict: Subjectivity and social control in a strong-arm rehab
The mandatory, state-subsidized treatment opened up by drug courts and other jail and prison diversion programs have massively expanded the numbers of the nation’s poor and working class who are labeled addicts and sent to rehab, making drug rehabilitation a primary site for the re-socialization and control of the poor. Drawing on ethnographic and interview data, this article examines the institutional form at the center of this process: the ‘str…
Addiction, agency, and the politics of self-control: Doing harm reduction in a heroin users' group
Recovering Whiteness in Medical‐Restorative Rehab
We present an ethnography of a highly medicalized rehab for stably employed, non‐criminalized men in Minnesota—arguing that while its style of rehab is universalized in popular accounts, it actually represents a case of distinctly white, middle‐class self‐reinvention within the broader field of US addiction treatment. “Medical‐restorative rehab” at “Healing Bridges” offered Twelve‐Step treatment, popular addiction science, and medication‐based th…
Addiction Doesn't Discriminate: Colorblind Racism in American Rehab
Drawing on ethnography and interviews with recovering men in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, this study explores how two dominant models of American rehab are racialized - coerced treatment theorizing addiction as criminal personality-and a more medicalized, voluntaristic model rooted in the brain disease paradigm. At the 'carceral rehab' of 'Arcadia House,' staff assumed its majority court-mandated, poor men of color would arrive resistant to reform…
Consuming Bodies: Body Commodification and Embodiment in Late Capitalist Societies
Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (3 works) · Addiction (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (2 works) · Criminal justice (2 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (2 works)