Drugs and Domesticity: Fencing the Nation

Kane Race

doi:10.5130/csr.v10i2.3472

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Published: Aug 12, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/csr.v10i2.3472

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Drugs, representation, social control, self-care, security, public domain, private domain

Kane Race

University of New South Wales

Abstract

Indirect techniques for controlling individuals are advanced, promoted in terms of a moral vocabulary of ‘self-care’. One of the challenges for a national culture disaggregating in this way is how to contain, channel, even profit from the fears, resentment and anxiety that accompanies the loss of various prior forms of security. Here I explore, through analysis of a number of texts, the ways in which the representation of drugs is rallied to this purpose—inciting, concentrating and managing the fear surrounding changes to the economic, political, racial and sexual landscape of our time, while refiguring expectations, demarcations and investments in the public and private domains, and how these spheres of action are made to appear.

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Vol. 10 No. 2 (2004): Haunted

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Kane Race, University of New South Wales

KANE RACE is a lecturer in culture, health and sexuality at the University of New South Wales, where he recently completed his doctoral thesis. His recent research on sexuality, embodiment, consumption and HIV/AIDS has been published in the Australian Humanities Review, Sexualities, and Social Science & Medicine.

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Kane Race, University of New South Wales