Civil Society Organizations and Care of the Self: An Ethnographic Case Study on Emancipation and Participation in Drug Treatment
Civil Society Organizations and Care of the Self: An Ethnographic Case Study on Emancipation and Participation in Drug Treatment
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民间社会组织与自我关怀：关于解放和参与戒毒治疗的民族志案例研究
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10.22439/fs.v0i0.4931
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2015
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Riikka Perälä
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作者：
Riikka Perälä
福柯对公民社会的分析偏离了经典的方法，因为他们不像经典的分析那样认为公民社会是社会变革或抵抗的场所，而是社会的多个场所之一，在那里所谓的治理精神击中了地面。虽然福柯的研究为当前的讨论提供了一个必要的出发点，使人们摆脱了将民间社会组织视为抵抗和社会变革场所的过于理想化的形象，但可能导致的结果是过于悲观的分析，这些分析忽视了民间社会组织作为福柯“照顾自我”的场所的解放方面。本文分析了民间社会组织在这些方面的工作，更重要的是分析了它们存在的条件。该研究报告提供了民间社会组织作为国家机构的制衡和补充的可能性的例子，为当前的讨论作出了贡献。背景是芬兰的药物治疗政策，在21世纪初采取了以客户为中心和用户友好的方法。从那时起，开始了与吸毒者合作的新方法，这些方法帮助吸毒者重塑他们的身份，并找到作为吸毒者的新生活方式。
Foucauldian analyses of civil society depart from classical approaches in that they don´t consider civil society to be a site of societal change or resistance as classical analyses do, but rather one of society’s multiple locations where so-called governmentality hits the ground. Although Foucauldian investigations have provided the prevailing discussion with a necessary departure from excessively idealistic images of civil society organizations as sites of resistance and societal transformation, what may have resulted in turn are overly pessimistic analyses that have overlooked the emancipatory aspects of civil society organizations as sites where Foucauldian “care of the self” becomes possible. This article provides the reader with an analysis of these kind of aspects in civil society organizations’ work and, more importantly, of the conditions of their existence. The study contributes to the prevailing discussion by offering examples of the possibilities that civil society organizations have to act as a counterbalance and addition to states institutions. The context is Finnish drug treatment policies that took a client-centered and user-friendly approach at the turn of 21 st century. Since then new kinds of methods to work with drug users have been initiated, which have helped the users to recast their identities and find new ways of living as a drug user.