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Meehan, Patrick, Sadan, Mandy, Aung Hla, Sai, Kham Phu, Sai and Muai Oo, Nang (2022) Young people’s everyday pathways into drug harms in Shan State, Myanmar. Third World Quarterly . pp. 1-19. doi:10.1080/01436597.2022.2090923 ISSN 1360-2241. (In Press)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2022.2090923
Abstract
In recent decades, youth drug use has become a cause of increasing concern across Asia and has inspired hardening drug control measures. However, consistently missing from drug narratives is a deeper engagement with young people themselves on why they use drugs and an understanding of the social, political, economic and cultural forces that shape their interactions with drugs. By engaging with the lived experiences of young people in the Myanmar city of Taunggyi, this paper offers new insights into the everyday pathways and practices through which systemic risk factors – poverty, large-scale local drug production and poor welfare provision – materialise into drug harms. This paper draws attention to three factors that shape these pathways: first, the role that drug-selling and drug consumption plays in the coping strategies that people deploy in an environment of economic hardship; second, the intersections between drug use and gendered conceptions of youth; and, third, the everyday institutional practices of local authorities. Exploring young people’s testimonies offers a grounded perspective for considering what can be done to reduce drug harms in a context where the structural determinants of drug risks are deeply entrenched and, in the context of post-coup Myanmar, likely to worsen.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School for Cross-faculty Studies > Global Sustainable Development | |||||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | |||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Drug abuse -- Myanmar -- Taunggyi, Drug abusers -- Myanmar -- Taunggyi -- Social conditions, Youth -- Drug use -- Myanmar -- Taunggyi, Drug abuse -- Social aspects -- -- Myanmar -- Taunggyi, Taunggyi (Myanmar) -- Social life and customs | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Third World Quarterly | |||||||||
| Publisher: | Informa UK Limited | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 1360-2241 | |||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 July 2022 | |||||||||
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| Page Range: | pp. 1-19 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/01436597.2022.2090923 | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | In Press | |||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | ** Article version: VoR ** From Crossref journal articles via Jisc Publications Router ** History: epub 01-07-2022; issued 01-07-2022. ** Licence for VoR version of this article starting on 01-07-2022: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 29 July 2022 | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 29 July 2022 | |||||||||
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