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IDENTITIES-GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE AND POWER
Volume 17, Issue 2-3, Pages 280-303Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/10702891003733500
Keywords
Drugs; globalization; prostitution; Indonesia; Singapore
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This article takes the drug Ecstasy as a commodity located at the center rather than at the margins of social processes, a technology that allows for the temporary engagement with pleasure and displacement of inequality in the context of nightlife and prostitution. It addresses these issues by focusing ethnographic attention on how Indonesian female prostitutes and their Singaporean male clients use Ecstasy in a disco on the Indonesian island of Batam, an export-processing zone located at the border to Singapore. By paying close attention to consumption practices, the article uses Ecstasy as a starting point for illuminating intersections of social mobility and inequality in the context of contemporary forms of transnational capitalism.
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