Suchergebnisse

Epidemiology meets cultural studies : studying and understanding youth cultures, clubs, and drugs -- Clubbers, candy kids and Jaded Ravers : introducing the scene, the participants, and the drugs -- Clubbing, drugs, and the dance scene in a global perspective -- Youth, us drug policy, and social control of the dance scene -- Uncovering the local : San Francisco's nighttime economy -- "The great unmentionable" : exploring the pleasures and benefits of ecstasy -- Drug use and the meaning of risk -- Combining different substances in the dance scene : enhancing pleasure, managing risk, and timing effects -- Drugs, gender, sexuality, and accountability in the world of raves -- Alcohol, gender, and social context -- Asian American youth : consumption, identity, and drugs in the dance scene.

Explores the relationships between the electronic dance scene and drug use for young ravers and clubbers. Based on over 300 interviews with ravers, DJ's and promoters, this title also explores the accomplishment of gender, sexuality and Asian American ethnicity and the negotiation of risk and pleasure within these scenes.

This article analyzes the construction of ethnic identity in the narratives of 100 young Asian Americans in a dance club/rave scene. Authors examine how illicit drug use and other consuming practices shape their understanding of Asian American identities, finding three distinct patterns. The first presents a disjuncture between Asian American ethnicity and drug use, seeing their own consumption as exceptional.The second argues their drug consumption is a natural outgrowth of their Asian American identity, allowing them to navigate the liminal space they occupy in American society. The final group presents Asian American drug use as normalized and constructs identity through taste and lifestyle boundary markers within social contexts of the dance scenes. These three narratives share a sense of ethnicity as dynamic, provisional, and constructed, allowing one to go beyond the static, essentialist models of ethnic identity that underlie much previous research on ethnicity, immigration, and substance use.

Combining mind-altering substances, whether illegal or legal, has provoked calls of alarm and concern among drug researchers for over thirty years. Since then numerous studies have been conducted to trace the different prevalent combinations and emphasize the serious consequences for individuals who use two or more drugs at any given time. Recently, this concern has been heightened as a result of the evidence that polydrug use among young people is increasing, especially among those who attend electronic music dance parties. The aim of this paper is to explore the different drug combinations used by a group of young people who attend raves, clubs and dance parties in the San Francisco Bay Area. Based on in-depth interviews with 300 young people we explore not only the different substances combined, but the meanings given as to why such combinations are chosen. In exploring our respondents' accounts, we hope to highlight both the thinking behind their drug using practices and the range of procedures adopted by young people to enhance the pleasures they hope to achieve in taking different substances, and control any potential problems.

The available research data on young Asian American drug use is relatively limited compared to the availability of research on other major ethnic groups. Today more published data have highlighted the extent to which drug use is significant and rising in Asian American communities. From our ongoing research on the social context of ecstasy and other club drug use in the San Francisco Bay Area, we analyze data from a total of 56 face-to-face interviews with young Asian American club and rave attendees. We explore the development of a distinctive Asian American experience, in order to understand the attraction of club drugs and the dance scene. We examine the specific social groupings in which they operate, the types of social events they attend, and the nature of their club drug use. We highlight some of the ways in which they construct and express their identities around these social groupings, in terms of ethnic and socio-cultural distinctions as well as other cultural commodities.