@article{ref1,
title="Hitting the wall: youth perspectives on boredom, trouble, and drug use dynamics in rural New Mexico",
journal="Youth and society",
year="2014",
author="Willging, Cathleen E. and Quintero, Gilbert A. and Lilliott, Elizabeth A.",
volume="46",
number="1",
pages="3-29",
abstract="We examine the experience of boredom and its relationship to troublemaking and drug use among rural youth in southwestern New Mexico. We draw on qualitative research with area youth to describe &quot;what&quot; they think about drug use and &quot;how&quot; they situate it within their social circumstances. We then locate youth drug use within globalized processes affecting this setting, including a local economic environment with limited educational and employment opportunities for youth. Drug use emerges as a common social practice that enables youth to ameliorate boredom, yet only some youth become known as troublemakers. Study findings offer insight into how dominant social institutions--schools and juvenile justice authorities--shape the construction of trouble from the perspectives of youth. We contend that boredom and troublemaking among rural youth are not simply age-appropriate forms of self-expression but instead represent manifestations of social position, political economic realities, and assessments of possible futures.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0044-118X",
doi="10.1177/0044118X11423231",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0044118X11423231"
}