The text introduces and analyses the different practices, dynamics and senses included in the recreational and festive alcohol and cocaine consumption for young women from Metropolitan Region, by means of drafting and characterizing their usage according to four different consumption cultures (punk/hardcore, underground, alternative and house/electronic), in different display territories of action and moments of ritual consumption chains. In addition, we traced the different transgression, flexibilization and continuity processes of social normativity regarding drugs, emphasizing the tensions raised by female consumption within the youth cultures and sociabilities. We state, therefore – as a hypothesis – that we are witnessing the reconfiguration of gender normativities, which are linked to a process of transformation of the consumption patterns of transnational drugs, in the context of the deepening of the anti-drugs punitive paradigm and governmental management of youths.
Keywords:
consumption cultures, drugs, young women
Author Biography
Sebastián Bravo Viveros, Universidad de Chile
Antropólogo Social, Universidad de Chile. Miembro del Núcleo en Acción e Investigación en Juventudes, Universidad de Chile. E-mail: sebast.bravo@gmail.com
Bravo Viveros, S. (2020). Alcohol and cocaine consumption cultures: practices and senses of metropolitan young females´ experience. Última Década, 26(49), 36–58. Retrieved from https://ultimadecada.uchile.cl/index.php/UD/article/view/56263
