This session explores the nexus of two fundamentally different premises surrounding drug use and drug users. First, the ‘legitimate’ use of prescription drugs to manage the ever-increasing discovery of mood and personality disorders. Second, the [...]
This panel examines the complex relationship between emotions and Neo-liberalism. Under Neo-liberalism emotions are increasingly the object of intervention, where self-surveillance emerges as an ethical project and the mark of successful citizenship. How emotions are [...]
The ways in which we define, form and experience family and intimate relationships are changing, and we are constantly made aware of this through what we read, watch and listen to in mainstream media and [...]
Mediating creative practice: Pragmatics Circulating in sites as diverse as design fairs, urban policy documents and TED talks, the ideology of “creativity” has become a powerful discourse in contemporary society. Yet creativity and innovation are [...]
Sociologists have always dabbled with the study of consumption, yet this area has remained relatively peripheral to the discipline. Though early sociologists, like Marx and Weber, took an interest in the study of consumption, many [...]