Becoming a Peer, Becoming a Person: Subject Formation in China's Antidrug Social Work.
This study investigates the local reinvention of imported peer service ideas for antidrug service in contemporary mainland China through the theoretical lens of subject formation, examining the construction of peers in a context where drug use is legally prohibited, morally condemned, and socially s...
| Publicado en: | Social Service Review Vol. 99; no. 1; pp. 79 - 130 |
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University of Chicago Press
Mar2025
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