ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how recovery arts support ongoing connection to recovery communities that in turn assists the maintenance of sustained recovery from addiction. Kinship is framed as a form of affective interaction that acknowledges the ways in which connection to recovery communities, or societies, supports and sustains the lived experience of being-in-recovery. Drawing on the concept of ‘belonging otherwise’ (Bradway and Freeman 2022, 2), it discusses how recovery communities are instigated and connected through collaborative arts activity. Kinship is also positioned as a practice of care, through attending to the ways in which we affect and are affected by the social environments around us.
