Russell Westhaver
Biographic Data
| ID | 655351 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Russell Westhaver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Russell |
| FAMILY NAME | Westhaver |
| SIGNATURE | WESTHAVER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Mary's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Kind of Sorting Out
In the face of what has been referred to as a crystal methamphetamine (CMA) ''epidemic'' among gay men in North America, a number of health promotion efforts have been developed. While these efforts vary in approach, a core feature is the assumption that a user's health depends on distinguishing accurate truths about CMA from inaccurate beliefs about CMA. Drawing on insights developed by Bruno Latour, this article unravels how this distinction pl…
Flaunting and Empowerment
For most gay men in major urban centers in North America, "circuit parties" are at least a passing point of reference, and most will have something to say about these all-night dance parties, characterized by drug use, sexual pursuits, and normative notions of masculinity. Proponents understand the circuit as a site of empowerment; critics see the circuit as a site of danger. Rather than focus on the truth content of these claims, this article, b…
‘Coming Out of Your Skin’
At the heart of health promotion is an unproblematized assumption about a universal fear of dying. Advocates of health promotion try to tap into this fear and use it as a motivating factor to reduce risky practices. When death avoidance is not apparent – or resisted on the part of the subject – this is taken as evidence of the subject’s irrationality or moral depravity. In this article, I draw on ethnographic research conducted on ‘circuit partie…
Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists
Flaunting and Empowerment
For most gay men in major urban centers in North America, "circuit parties" are at least a passing point of reference, and most will have something to say about these all-night dance parties, characterized by drug use, sexual pursuits, and normative notions of masculinity. Proponents understand the circuit as a site of empowerment; critics see the circuit as a site of danger. Rather than focus on the truth content of these claims, this article, b…
A Kind of Sorting Out
In the face of what has been referred to as a crystal methamphetamine (CMA) ''epidemic'' among gay men in North America, a number of health promotion efforts have been developed. While these efforts vary in approach, a core feature is the assumption that a user's health depends on distinguishing accurate truths about CMA from inaccurate beliefs about CMA. Drawing on insights developed by Bruno Latour, this article unravels how this distinction pl…
Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists
‘Coming Out of Your Skin’
At the heart of health promotion is an unproblematized assumption about a universal fear of dying. Advocates of health promotion try to tap into this fear and use it as a motivating factor to reduce risky practices. When death avoidance is not apparent – or resisted on the part of the subject – this is taken as evidence of the subject’s irrationality or moral depravity. In this article, I draw on ethnographic research conducted on ‘circuit partie…
Flaunting and Empowerment
For most gay men in major urban centers in North America, "circuit parties" are at least a passing point of reference, and most will have something to say about these all-night dance parties, characterized by drug use, sexual pursuits, and normative notions of masculinity. Proponents understand the circuit as a site of empowerment; critics see the circuit as a site of danger. Rather than focus on the truth content of these claims, this article, b…
A Kind of Sorting Out
In the face of what has been referred to as a crystal methamphetamine (CMA) ''epidemic'' among gay men in North America, a number of health promotion efforts have been developed. While these efforts vary in approach, a core feature is the assumption that a user's health depends on distinguishing accurate truths about CMA from inaccurate beliefs about CMA. Drawing on insights developed by Bruno Latour, this article unravels how this distinction pl…
Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Dance (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)