Dilkes-Frayne Ella
Monash University, Australia.
Int J Drug Policy. 2016 Jul;33:27-35. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2015.10.004. Epub 2015 Oct 24.
Music festivals have received relatively little research attention despite being key sites for alcohol and drug use among young people internationally. Research into music festivals and the social contexts of drug use more generally, has tended to focus on social and cultural processes without sufficient regard for the mediating role of space and spatial processes.
Adopting a relational approach to space and the social, from Actor-Network Theory and human geography, I examine how socio-spatial relations are generated in campsites at multiple-day music festivals. The data are drawn from ethnographic observations at music festivals around Melbourne, Australia; interviews with 18-23 year olds; and participant-written diaries.
Through the analysis, the campsite is revealed as a space in process, the making of which is bound up in how drug use unfolds. Campsite relations mediate the formation of drug knowledge and norms, informal harm reduction practices, access to and exchange of drugs, and rest and recovery following drug use.
Greater attendance to socio-spatial relations affords new insights regarding how festival spaces and their social effects are generated, and how they give rise to particular drug use practices. These findings also point to how festival harm reduction strategies might be enhanced through the promotion of enabling socio-spatial relations.
尽管音乐节是全球年轻人饮酒和吸毒的主要场所，但相对而言，音乐节受到的研究关注较少。对音乐节以及更广泛的吸毒社会背景的研究，往往侧重于社会和文化过程，而没有充分考虑空间和空间过程的中介作用。
我采用了一种源于行动者网络理论和人文地理学的空间与社会关系方法，来研究在多日音乐节的露营地中社会空间关系是如何产生的。数据来源于对澳大利亚墨尔本周边音乐节的人种志观察、对18至23岁年轻人的访谈以及参与者撰写的日记。
通过分析发现，露营地是一个不断变化的空间，其形成与吸毒的展开方式紧密相连。露营地关系调节着毒品知识和规范的形成、非正式的减少伤害做法、毒品的获取和交换，以及吸毒后的休息和恢复。
更多地关注社会空间关系，能为音乐节空间及其社会影响是如何产生的，以及它们如何导致特定的吸毒行为提供新的见解。这些发现还指出了如何通过促进有利的社会空间关系来加强音乐节的减少伤害策略。
