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- Title
CHAPTER 9: Drinking, Dancing and Hooking Up: Young Adults in Sexual Pursuit in the Mainstream Nightlife in Denmark.
- Authors
Jensen, Mie Birk
- Abstract
This chapter explores young people's experiences with sexual pursuits in the mainstream nightlife in Denmark based on data from a large-scale qualitative study on gender, youth, and intoxication among young adults. Focusing on three specific materialdiscursive entanglements, namely the dance floor, bodily signs and the exchange of drinks, and drawing on social constructionist insights, Foucault's concept of "heterotopia," affect theory and new materialism, Jensen approaches these young adults' narrated experiences with sexual pursuit as reflecting complex intra-actions between the socio-material context and the affective atmosphere of the nightlife. These intra-actions produce real effects that spill over into young adults' experiences with sex and further intimate and romantic contact outside the nightlife.
- Subjects
SOCIAL constructionism; SOCIAL psychology; SOCIAL processes; MATERIALISM; SOCIAL integration
- Publication
Value Inquiry Book Series, 2020, Vol 358, p175
- ISSN
0929-8436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/9789004441460_011