Shooting up illicit drugs with God and the State: the legal–spatial constitution of Sydney's Medically Supervised Injecting Centre as a sanctuary

摘要: In 1999, the Uniting Church opened a Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) at Wayside Chapel in inner Sydney suburb of Kings Cross. The justified this overt act civil disobedience against State's prohibitionist model drug usage by invoking ancient right sanctuary. This invocation sought to produce specific sort spatialisation wherein meaning line constituting sanctuary effects protected ‘inside’ governed God's word – civitas dei ‘outside’ jurisdiction state power terrena. Sanctuary claims territory exempt from other jurisdictions. modern assertion enacts physical space relationship between and religious authorities integration intersections terrena dei. article draws upon conceptions intersection Catholic Christianity tradition State since medieval times analyse contemporary MSIC, exploring shifting ambiguous boundaries material, legislative, symbolic spaces. We argue that even though MSIC has now been incorporated into terrena, it remains