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Kiwis, Clubs and Drugs: Club Cultures in Wellington, New Zealand

2010; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 43; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1375/acri.43.1.91

1837-9273

Fiona Hutton,

Crime Patterns and Interventions

Illicit drug use within club cultures has been well documented internationally, but research and scholarship about New Zealand club cultures is scarce. This article explores recreational drug use among a sample of 18–48-year-old clubbers in Wellington clubs, New Zealand in 2004–5. The normalisation thesis is used as a basis for analysis with a focus on the issues raised by this thesis. The problematic issues raised by the normalisation thesis and developed in this article were that the processes of normalisation, including current regular drug use and drug-wiseness, varies between locales and between casual, formal or reformed drug users. This reflects both variation in ‘cultural accommodation of the illicit’ and the nature of the diverse population represented.