Having theorized alongside people who use drugs for over a decade, Jarrett Zigon considers the ways anti-drug war organizing enacts what he terms “nonnormative, open, and relationally inclusive alternatives to such key ethical-political concepts as community, freedom, and care.”11Jarrett Zigon, “A Politics of Worldbuilding,” Society for Cultural Anthropology online, December 5, 2017. Focusing on his 2018 book A War on People: Drug User Politics and a New Ethics of Community, Zigon will discuss the expansive possibilities he sees emerging from resistance to drug criminalization and stigma: “In their attempts to build new worlds, anti–drug war political agonists have become keen political actors who simultaneously engage in pragmatic, policy-oriented activities while also experimentally enacting alternative relationalities, values, and possibilities.”22Ibid.

Snacks and refreshments will be provided before the event, beginning at 5pm.

Accessibility: Jackman Humanities Building is a physically accessible venue. Accessible single-gender washrooms are available on the first floor.