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dc.contributor.authorOgwang, Tom
dc.contributor.authorCox, Leonie
dc.contributor.authorSaldanha, Jude
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-17T09:02:12Z
dc.date.available2020-01-17T09:02:12Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.identifier.citationOgwang, T., Cox, L., & Saldanha, J. (2006). Paint on their lips: Paint-sniffers, good citizens and public space in Brisbane. Journal of Sociology, 42(4), 412-428.en_US
dc.identifier.issn412–428
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.must.ac.ug/xmlui/handle/123456789/421
dc.descriptionThis article describes structured responses to young Indigenous people whose paint-sniffing in Brisbane attracts public attention.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis article describes structured responses to young Indigenous people whose paint-sniffing in Brisbane attracts public attention. It gives an emic account of the sniffers’ responses to these processes and argues that paintsniffing expresses their alienated and marginalized social status and is part of an encoded revolt against White cultural authority and its imposed norms. Foucault’s view of freedom as the capacity to act and question the taken-forgrantedness of one’s milieu (Dreyfus, 2004), and his notion of the body as the locus of power and control, are used to examine unequal power relations described here. Cohen’s (2002) moral panic and Young’s (1971a, 1971b) deviance amplification frameworks are used to examine the reactions of the police and of ordinary good citizens. We conclude that while dominant responses to paint-sniffing in Queensland rid inner Brisbane of paint-sniffing, they increase the young people’s alienation and marginalization from society, thus reproducing the social conditions that lead to sniffing.en_US
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dc.publisherThe Australian Sociological Associationen_US
dc.subjectdeviance amplification, embodiment, Indigenous youth, paintsniffing, power, resistanceen_US
dc.titlePaint on their lips Paint-sniffers, good citizens and public space in Brisbaneen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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