CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Margo, Giavana Marie |
|---|---|
| Title | The Social Imaginary on Women Who Use Drugs: Decoding Contemporary Drug Discourses in the Russian Federation |
| Summary | This thesis analyzes how official discourses in the Russian Federation construct women who use drugs. Furthermore, it examines the responses of two NGOs, the Andrey Rylkov Foundation and the E.V.A. Women’s Network, towards official discourses and their social consequences. Asking how NGO counter discourses construct women who use drugs, this thesis explores the emergence of an alternative social imaginary on this group. The research uses discourses analysis as a theoretical and methodological framework, complimented with theories on the social imaginary and gender. Official and NGO drug discourses are analyzed through materials including text, images, and semi-structured interviews. This thesis finds that the two NGOs included here, ARF and E.V.A., resist official drug discourses and offer an alternative social imaginary on women who use drugs. While official drug discourses frame women in terms of invisibility, failed motherhood, and crime, the counter discourses of these NGOs’ construct women in terms of acceptance and respect, motherhood as a right and a challenge, and recognize the vulnerability and diversity of women who use drugs. Finally, this thesis discusses the types of advocacy utilized by ARF and E.V.A., and offers recommendations for comprehensive, mainstreamed gender-sensitive harm reduction services. |
| Supervisor | de Haan, Francisca; Sandor, Judit |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/margo_giavana.pdf |
Visit the CEU Library.
© 2007-2021, Central European University