Overview
- Situates chemical enhancement in terms of the challenges that young people face in managing a range of expectations and pressures
- Uses ethnographic material from young people across the globe, including The Netherlands, USA, Indonesia and the Philippines
- Examines how young people view the risks of using chemical substances, confronting the uncertainty of the practice while also attending to the perceived benefits
Part of the book series: Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty (CRSTRU)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Anita Hardon is Professor of Anthropology of Care and Health and Director of the Research Priority Area Global Health at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Chemical Youth
Book Subtitle: Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life
Authors: Anita Hardon
Series Title: Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57081-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57080-4Published: 14 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57083-5Published: 20 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-57081-1Published: 13 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2523-7268
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7276
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 318
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 67 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Anthropology, Medical Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Youth Culture