Performing Cannabis in the Light of the Backpacker Discourse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11057346 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Merete Hellum (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 165-187 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Drug Problems (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-4509 • E-ISSN: 2163-1808 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/009145091003700108 |
| OpenAlex | W2001966419 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
The aim of this article is to discuss how we theoretically can understand the relationship between a specific intoxicating drug and a specific holiday discourse, in this case the relationship between the drug cannabis and the backpackers' discourse. Starting from the term performance, which is divided into different forms of performance—directed, identity-oriented, and nonconforming—I try to grasp the process of materialization: how matters or substances ascribe meaning. In this article I discuss how the backpacker discourse is historically formed by the 1960s/70s hippie discourse, and further, how the drug cannabis is a part of this picture. Cannabis is used as a marketing instrument when the backpackers' discourse is promoted. There is a link between an ideology described in the hippie discourse and different forms of performance, such as identity-oriented, where cannabis is referred to as “natural,” and intoxication as a happy, nonviolent alternative, connected to solidarity, and the nonconforming performance, which can be a performance showing shame in relation to travelling and illicit drug experiences, or a resistance performance which aligns with the official Swedish drug discourse in order to present Swedish backpackers positively
Aesthetics · Cannabis · Critical discourse analysis · Discourse analysis · Epistemology · Identity (music) · Ideology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Public discourse · Relation (database) · Shame · Sociology · Solidarity · Community Health and Development · Computer Science · Law · Music History and Culture · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
The golden hordes
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
The Conquerors and the Settlers
Tourism consumption and representation
In Search of Respect
Sexed Work
‘Bodies that Matter’
I am not a drug abuser, I am a drug user”
Backpacking
The Hippie Ghetto
Between Culture and Nature
Nomads from Affluence
Staying Within the Fence
Performing tourism, staging tourism
Risk creation in traveling
The Body in Tourism
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2021 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |