Assembling realities, assembling capacities: Young people and drug consumption in Australian drug education
This thesis analyses the constitution of young people and drug consumption in Australian drug education and social marketing texts. Drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze and on science and technology studies, it assesses the realities assembled in these materials. Structured to reflect the assemblag...
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| author | Farrugia, Adrian Christopher |
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| description | This thesis analyses the constitution of young people and drug consumption in Australian drug education and social marketing texts. Drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze and on science and technology studies, it assesses the realities assembled in these materials. Structured to reflect the assemblage approach it adopts, it argues that drug education’s articulation of rationality, sociality, space and gender, is more likely to produce than to reduce the harms traditionally thought of as “drug-related”. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-516222017-03-28T01:59:21Z Assembling realities, assembling capacities: Young people and drug consumption in Australian drug education Farrugia, Adrian Christopher This thesis analyses the constitution of young people and drug consumption in Australian drug education and social marketing texts. Drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze and on science and technology studies, it assesses the realities assembled in these materials. Structured to reflect the assemblage approach it adopts, it argues that drug education’s articulation of rationality, sociality, space and gender, is more likely to produce than to reduce the harms traditionally thought of as “drug-related”. 2016 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51622 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Farrugia, Adrian Christopher Assembling realities, assembling capacities: Young people and drug consumption in Australian drug education |
| title | Assembling realities, assembling capacities: Young people and drug consumption in Australian drug education |
| title_full | Assembling realities, assembling capacities: Young people and drug consumption in Australian drug education |
| title_fullStr | Assembling realities, assembling capacities: Young people and drug consumption in Australian drug education |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assembling realities, assembling capacities: Young people and drug consumption in Australian drug education |
| title_short | Assembling realities, assembling capacities: Young people and drug consumption in Australian drug education |
| title_sort | assembling realities, assembling capacities: young people and drug consumption in australian drug education |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51622 |