Author: Giulia Zoccatelli

Giulia Zoccatelli is a post-doctoral Research Associate at the King’s College London. She conducted extensive research in East and Southwest China, focusing on issues related to sex work, heroin abuse and medical activism among socially marginalized and vulnerable populations. In particular, her research explores the intersection and overlapping between global health policies, grassroots practices and the bureaucratic functioning of the state. She is currently involved in a project that ethnographically explores the joys and sorrows of patients’ involvement in the British NHS.

Giulia Zoccatelli

Turning cool kids into outlaws – Legal fictions and the management of heroin abuse in post-reform China

May, 2016 / By Giulia Zoccatelli

Cool kids. On a rainy afternoon towards the end of my fieldwork in Qilin, southwest China, I sat with one […]