‘Frightening Yet Fulfilling’: Vulnerability, Precarity and the Labour of Harm Reduction
通过巴塞罗那一名伤害减少工作者的叙述，揭示了结构性不平等和暴力如何塑造工作者的脆弱性，以及不稳定的工作安排如何加剧这种脆弱性，同时工作者与吸毒者的关系既带来情感回报也增加风险。
Harm reduction workers minimise the adverse health, social, and legal consequences of drug use through their engagement with people who use drugs (PWUD). Felix, a nurse overseeing drug use at a harm reduction facility in Barcelona, offers a glimpse into the hidden realities of their work. His account reveals how exposure to structural inequalities and violence shapes the socially situated experience of vulnerability at work. Taking us into his social relations with PWUD, he explains how these relations help him mitigate his exposure to violence and are emotionally rewarding, while heightening his vulnerability. His vulnerability is also shaped and redefined by the uncertain, unstable and insecure work arrangements explicitly imposed by his employer. By shedding light on how vulnerability and precarity intertwine during harm reduction work, this account unpacks the subjectivity-making process central to workers’ experiences of precariousness.