Chemical Youth : Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life
- Author
- Anita Hardon
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Document Type
- Book
- Faculty / Subject Heading
- Social Science
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This 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.
Keywords: Social Science / Social Anthropology / Medical Sociology / Science and Technology Studies / Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging / Youth Culture / Chemo-Ethnography / Chemical use / Drug policy / Pharmaceutical culture / Pharmaceutical ‘personhood’
