Informed by the thought of Pierre Bourdieu and framed by the philosophy of harm reduction, Habitus and Drug Using Environments provides a sociological analysis of public environments affected by injecting drug use. Drawing on ethnographic research across several locations, this book offers a qualitative and phenomenological account of the social organisation of public settings used for the preparation and administration of illicit drugs, informed by interviews with both injecting drug users and those whose employment is directly affected by public injecting drug use.

Stephen Parkin is a qualitative researcher at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Services, University of Oxford, UK and author of An Applied Visual Sociology: Picturing Harm Reduction.

1: Drug Using Environments; 2: Structure and Agency; 3: Considering Bourdieu; 4: Methodology and Method; 5: Field; 6: The Doxic Attitude of Public Injecting: Habitus and Capital; 7: Struggle: Control and Resistance; 8: Harm and Hazard: The Illusio of the Public Injecting Habitus; 9: Producing Habitus: The Embodiment of Public Injecting Observed; 10: Habitus and Drug Using Environments: Health, Place and Lived-Experience