Tom Yardley

Why We Take Drugs (eBook, ePUB)

Seeking Excess and Communion in the Modern World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Why We Take Drugs provides a timely intervention in the growing debate about the wisdom of the ongoing 'war on drugs'. Rather than adopting the assumption that drug and alcohol use is a problem that poses a threat to society, this book makes a case for the idea that society is a problem for intoxicant drug use and that it is society that poses a threat, by denying those who seek intoxication a legitimate and socially sanctioned space in which to experience these altered states.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136446863
• Artikelnr.: 38257649

Autorenporträt

Tom Yardley is currently working on a collaborative project looking at the changing boundaries and new convergences between prescription medicines, herbal remedies and legal and illegal recreational drugs.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Sacrificing the Rational Body: The
Transgressive Economy of Intoxication 3. Seeking the Impossible:
Expenditure Beyond Necessity 4. Traditional Time and Modern Time 5. From
Bodies in Time to Time in the Body 6. Theorizing Community 7. Intoxication
Liminality and Community Formation 8. Conclusion