Cómo convertirse en consumidor/usuario de pasta de base de cocaína o crack

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to analyze the subjectivity of cocaine base consumer / user, taking as reference an ethnography of a year of trajectory in a neighborhood recognized for having high levels of violence and illegal drug sales, a neighborhood located in the center from the city of Quito-Ecuador. I return to this ethnographic data to think especially from three authors: Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault and Norbert Elias. Making use of the categories: habitus, biopolitics, psychogenesis, and sociogenesis, I propose to analyze the subjectivity and the social structures that leads to a certain type of subject to become consumers of illegal drugs such as crack cocaine base paste.