Interview with Nancy Campbell (original) (raw)

and, especially, Donna Haraway. By the time I got there in 1990, there were feminist theorists working on topics related to political theory, social history, and-what I would call-the cultural studies of science, medicine, and technology. And so, from the outset, my work on drugs and drug policy was shaped by this kind of approach-an amalgam of feminist theory, social history, political and social theory, and cultural studies. It was a time when people were interested in the merging of cultural studies with political economy, out of which came political discourse analysis or critical discourse analysis. That approach was, at the bottom , very materialist. Discourse analysis was not an analysis of ideology so much as it was an analysis of the integration between culture and political economy. We were all in a sense structuralists/posts-structuralists. We were very interested in making sense of the technology that was at the center of our work. In my case, it has always been drugs. At first,