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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812627403321

Autore

Blackman Shane J

Titolo

Chilling out : the cultural politics of substance consumption, youth and drug policy / / Shane Blackman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Maidenhead, : Open University Press, 2004

ISBN

1-280-95081-1

0-335-22430-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

362.29

362.290835

Soggetti

Youth - Substance use

Substance abuse - Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 01; Chapter 02; Chapter 03; Chapter 04; Chapter 05; Chapter 06; Chapter 07; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book critically examines the assumptions underlying drug prohibition and explores the contradictions of drug prevention policies. For the first time in this field, it combines a wide-ranging exploration of the global political and historical context with a detailed focus on youth culture, on the basis that young people are the primary target of drug prevention policies. Chilling Out provides a critical map of drugs, bringing together work on drugs as a source of political state repression and regulation of morality through medical discourse, work on drugs as cultural commodities in film,