Chemical Youth: Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life (Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty)

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. https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28278 Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii Introduction (Anita Hardon)....Pages 1-41 Chemical Highs (Anita Hardon)....Pages 43-79 Chemical Breath (Anita Hardon)....Pages 81-111 Chemical Sexualities (Anita Hardon)....Pages 113-144 Chemical Whiteness (Anita Hardon)....Pages 145-181 Chemical 24/7 (Anita Hardon)....Pages 183-213 Chemical Supplementing (Anita Hardon)....Pages 215-246 Chemical Creativity (Anita Hardon)....Pages 247-279 Chemical Futures (Anita Hardon)....Pages 281-310 Back Matter ....Pages 311-318