Titre : | Carnal pleasures and grotesque bodies: Regulating the body during a "big night out" of alcohol and party drug use (2012) |
Auteurs : | A. PENNAY |
Type de document : | Article : Périodique |
Dans : | Contemporary Drug Problems (Vol.39, n°3, Fall 2012) |
Article en page(s) : | 397-428 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | SHS (Sciences humaines et sociales / Humanities and social sciences) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus géographique AUSTRALIEThésaurus mots-clés USAGE RECREATIF ; ALCOOL ; DROGUES DE SYNTHESE ; ETHNOGRAPHIE ; PLAISIR ; EDUCATION POUR LA SANTE ; JEUNE ; NORME ; MDMA-ECSTASY ; METHAMPHETAMINE ; CORPS ; MILIEU FESTIF ; ETUDE QUALITATIVE ; TYPE D'USAGE ; DISCOURS ; CULTUREL |
Résumé : | This article explores the role that discourses of health promotion play in the regulation of the human body during sessions of alcohol and “party drug” use. Drawing on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork, I show how a group of young "mainstream" recreational drug users attempted to manage the tension between their identification with governing images propagated by public health and their desire for pleasure by regulating their alcohol and drug use in certain ways so as to avoid appearing outwardly disorderly while still pursuing pleasure in spaces they deemed appropriate for transgression. Constructing controlled or moderate drug use as the only acceptable form of pleasure fails to appreciate the dynamic and strategic ways that young drug users attempt to maximize pleasure and minimize risk. Public health messages should avoid representing young alcohol and party drug users as irrational and disordered and should incorporate pleasure into future messages. |
Domaine : | Alcool / Alcohol ; Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs |
Affiliation : | Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre, Australia |
Cote : | Abonnement |
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