Righteous Dopefiend

How does globalization connect to the interpersonal violence enacted on Edgewater Boulevard residents? Consider the book’s four layers of violence: interpersonal, community, societal, and paradigmatic.

What biases and potential blind spots might the authors have brought with them to their work? How did their identities impact their work in the field, and what impacts may not have been explicitly discussed in the book?

How does the theory of lumpen abuse expand upon the work of Marx, Bourdieu, and Foucault? How does the book alter concepts from these philosophers to fit its theoretical model?

What does Righteous Dopefiend suggest regarding whose responsibility it is to mitigate the negative effects of globalization? Who benefits the most, and who experiences the most harm?

How does the book depict situations that might be shocking or surprising to readers? How does it try to account for readers’ socio-cultural and economic identities?

Who is the intended audience of this book? Could it have been altered to better reach the public? Policymakers? Explain what alterations might appeal to different audiences and why.

Discuss the ethics of the book’s methodology. Is the book exploitative? If so, does its possible positive impact on the lives of interlocutors justify this? If not, how to the authors avoid exploiting their subjects?

How would this book be different if public health social scientists had conducted the research? How would its goals, methodologies, theoretical models, and dissemination of the research potentially differ? Would quantitative data add to or take away from the goals of the book? Why?