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oapen-20.500.12657-429212020-11-14T01:46:44Z Chemical Youth Hardon, Anita 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 bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBS Medical sociology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBK Sociology: family & relationships bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies 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. 2020-11-13T13:35:16Z 2020-11-13T13:35:16Z 2021 book ONIX_20201113_9783030570811_27 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42921 eng Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty application/pdf n/a 2021_Book_.pdf https://www.springer.com/9783030570811 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-030-57081-1 10.1007/978-3-030-57081-1 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 Palgrave Macmillan 318 open access
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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.
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