Cultures and materialities of imagination : new drug practices and engagements in a digital world

• Main Author: Sieland, Stephan S. (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2020]
• Series: Innovations in qualitative research.
• Subjects: Youth > Drug use > Denmark.; Drug addiction > Denmark.; Information technology > Social aspects.; Digital media > Social aspects.; Psychology > Psychopathology > Addiction.; Drugs and alcohol: social aspects.; Addiction and therapy.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806605033
• DOI: 10.1108/9781648022784
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (374 pages)

"In our current digital era, imagination and the cultural and material conditions by which it is developed are more crucially than ever implicated in the experienced adversities and contradictions of drug use. The technological changes of society underscore the need for rethinking dominant unde...

Table of Contents:

• Series editors preface
• Acknowledgments. Presencing i: Research problems and departures Introduction
• Chapter 1. Agency and subjectivity in drug use and addiction. Presencing ii: Theorizing the dialectics of imagination in everyday living
• Chapter 2. Where did imagination go in psychological theorizing?
• Chapter 3. Subjective and materialized processes of imagination in everyday living
• Chapter 4. From expansive towards restrictive aspects of imagination. Presencing iii: Imagination and digital-material reciprocations in young people's drug engagements
• Chapter 5. Messing up methods and cleaning up
• Chapter 6. Emerging promises of drugs in young people's living
• Chapter 7. Narrowing in of imagination and intensification of drug engagements
• Chapter 8. Expanding beyond and resolving drug-related problems. Presencing iv: Expanding the epistemic imagination
• Chapter 9. Re-imagining drug engagements
• Chapter 10. Re-imagining the concept of imagination. Final reflections. references.