Assembling realities, assembling capacities: Young people and drug consumption in Australian drug education
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Open access
Authors
Farrugia, Adrian Christopher
Date
2016Supervisor
Prof. Suzanne Fraser
Prof. David Moore
Type
Thesis
Award
PhD
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Health Science
School
National Drug Research Institute (NDRI)
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Abstract
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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