Book Details

Chemical Youth Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life

Publication year: 2021

ISBN: 978-3-030-57081-1

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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.


Subject: Social Sciences, 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’