Chemical Youth : Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life
Hardon, Anita
Chemical Youth : Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life - Springer Nature 2021 - 1 electronic resource (318 p.)
Open Access
This open access book explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and supplements a large body of literature on young people’s use of drugs and alcohol to highlight the subjectivities and socialities that chemical use enables across diverse socio-cultural settings, illustrating how young people seek to avoid harm, while harnessing the beneficial effects of chemical use. The book is based on multi-sited anthropological research in Southeast Asia, Europe and the US, and presents insights from collaborative and contrasting analysis. Hardon brings new perspectives to debates across drug policy studies, pharmaceutical cultures and regulation, science and technology studies, and youth and precarity in post-industrial societies.
Creative Commons
English
978-3-030-57081-1
10.1007/978-3-030-57081-1 doi
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
Medical sociology
Sociology
Sociology: family & relationships
Cultural studies
Social Anthropology Medical Sociology Science and Technology Studies Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging Youth Culture Sociocultural Anthropology Chemo-Ethnography Chemical use Drug policy pharmaceutical culture pharmaceutical ‘personhood’ Open access Social & cultural anthropology Sociology Sociology: family & relationships Cultural studies Age groups: adolescents
Chemical Youth : Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life - Springer Nature 2021 - 1 electronic resource (318 p.)
Open Access
This open access book explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and supplements a large body of literature on young people’s use of drugs and alcohol to highlight the subjectivities and socialities that chemical use enables across diverse socio-cultural settings, illustrating how young people seek to avoid harm, while harnessing the beneficial effects of chemical use. The book is based on multi-sited anthropological research in Southeast Asia, Europe and the US, and presents insights from collaborative and contrasting analysis. Hardon brings new perspectives to debates across drug policy studies, pharmaceutical cultures and regulation, science and technology studies, and youth and precarity in post-industrial societies.
Creative Commons
English
978-3-030-57081-1
10.1007/978-3-030-57081-1 doi
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
Medical sociology
Sociology
Sociology: family & relationships
Cultural studies
Social Anthropology Medical Sociology Science and Technology Studies Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging Youth Culture Sociocultural Anthropology Chemo-Ethnography Chemical use Drug policy pharmaceutical culture pharmaceutical ‘personhood’ Open access Social & cultural anthropology Sociology Sociology: family & relationships Cultural studies Age groups: adolescents