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Chemical Youth : Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life /

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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...

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Main Author: Hardon, Anita (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Edition:1st ed. 2021.
Series:Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty,
Subjects:
Ethnology.
Social medicine.
Technology-Sociological aspects.
Social groups.
Family.
Youth-Social life and customs.
Social Anthropology.
Medical Sociology.
Science and Technology Studies.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Youth Culture.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XXIII, 318 pages 74 illustrations, 67 illustrations in color.)
ISBN:9783030570811
ISSN:2523-7276
DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-57081-1
Access:Open Access