Caught on Camera

Across Guatemala City, Pentecostal drug rehabilitation centers warehouse users (often against their will) in the name of salvation. This essay, in response, details how pastors deploy digital media to assess a user’s relative fitness for a Christian life. Of particular interest is how pastors insist...

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Published in:Public culture 2017-09, Vol.29 (3), p.493-514
Main Author: O’Neill, Kevin Lewis
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropology
Christianity
Clergy
Criminalization
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Studies
Digital media
Drug abuse
Drug addiction
Drug policy
Imprisonment
Mass media images
Pentecostal churches
Pentecostals
Photography
Rehabilitation
Social Theory
Sociology
Substance abuse treatment
Surveillance
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Summary:Across Guatemala City, Pentecostal drug rehabilitation centers warehouse users (often against their will) in the name of salvation. This essay, in response, details how pastors deploy digital media to assess a user’s relative fitness for a Christian life. Of particular interest is how pastors insist that photographs and videos allow the faithful to read users for signs of the soul. Contributing to the criminalization and mass incarceration of drug users, these images organize the outer edges of today’s war on drugs.
ISSN:0899-2363
1527-8018
DOI:10.1215/08992363-3869572