Drugs And Popular Culture: Drugs, Media And Identity in Contemporary Society

✍ Scribed by Paul Manning

Publisher: Willan Pub
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 302
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Content: pt. 1. Context, theory and history. 1. An introduction to the theoretical approaches and research traditions / Paul Manning --
2. Mental health and moral panic : drug discourses in history / Andrew Blake --
pt. 2. Considering the "normalisation thesis". 3. Definitely, maybe not? The normalisation of recreational drug use amongst young people / Michael Shiner, Tim Newburn --
4. The normalisation of "sensible" recreational drug use : further evidence from the North West Longitudinal Study / Howard Parker, Lisa Williams, Judith Aldridge --
pt. 3. Representing drugs in and as popular culture. 5. Drugs and popular music in the modern age / Andrew Blake --
6. Drugs, the family and recent American cinema / Leighton Grist --
7. Under a cloud : morality, ambivalence and uncertainty in news discourse of cannabis law reform in Great Britain / Simon Cross --
8. The symbolic framing of drug use in the news : ecstasy and volatile substance abuse in newspapers / Paul Manning --
9. Drug dealers as folk heroes? Drugs and television situation comedy / Paul Carter --
10. Junk, skunk and northern lights : representing drugs in children's literature / Andrew Melrose, Vanessa Harbour --
pt. 4. Identities, cultural practices and drugs. 11. Echoes of drug culture in urban music / Oluyinka Esan --
12. Drugs and identity : being a junkie mum / Sarah Dalal Goode --
13. Women, drugs and popular culture : is there a need for a feminist embodiment perspective? / Elizabeth Ettorre --
14. The drugs of labour : the contested nature of popular drug use in childbirth / Laura Hübner --
pt. 5. Drugs, normalisation and popular culture : implications and policy. 15. Systemic "normalisation"? Mapping and interpreting policy responses to illicit drug use / Richard Huggins.

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