Drinking Dilemmas (eBook, ePUB)

Space, culture and identity
Redaktion: Thurnell-Read, Thomas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drinking and drunkenness have become a focal point for political and media debates to contest notions of responsibility, discipline and risk; yet, at the same time, academic studies have highlighted the positive aspects of drinking in relation to sociability, belonging and identity. These issues are at the heart of this volume, which brings together the work of academics and researchers exploring social and cultural aspects of contemporary drinking practices. These drinking practices are enormously varied and are spatially and culturally defined. The contributions to the volume draw on research settings from across the UK and beyond to demonstrate both the complexity and diversity of drinking subjectivities and practices. Across these examples tensions relating to gender, social class, age and the life course are particularly prominent. Rather than align to now long-established moral discourses about what constitutes 'good' and 'bad' drinking, a sociological approaches to alcohol foreground the vivid, lived, nature of alcohol consumption and the associated experiences of drunkenness and intoxication. In doing so, the volume illuminates the controversial yet important social and cultural roles played by drink for individuals and groups across a range of social contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317395607
• Artikelnr.: 44473299

Autorenporträt

Thomas Thurnell-Read is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Humanities at Coventry University. Through his research and teaching, he uses contemporary leisure and consumption practices, particularly those relating to drinking and drunkenness, to explore a range of sociological issues relating to sociality, identity and diversity. His research on British stag party tourism in Poland has been published in a range of international journals and focuses on the social construction of masculinity through transgressive drinking practices. He is the editor (with Dr Mark Casey, Newcastle University) of Men, Masculinities, Travel and Tourism (2014, Palgrave Macmillan). He is a founder member of the BSA Alcohol Study Group and has been Co-Convenor of the group since July 2012.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. Drinking Dilemmas?: Space
culture and identity
Thomas Thurnell-Read 2. Revisiting Urban Nightscapes: An Academic and personal journey through twenty years of nightlife research
Robert Hollands 3. The Symbolic Value of Alcohol: The importance of alcohol consumption
drinking practices and drinking spaces in classed and gendered identity construction
Kimberley Ross-Houle
Amanda Atkinson and Harry Sumnall 4. Beer and Belonging: Real ale consumption
place and identity
Thomas Thurnell-Read 5. Illegal Drinking Venues in a South African Township: Sites of struggle in the informal city
Andrew Charman 6. 'Eat
Drink and Be Merry for Tomorrow We Die': Alcohol practices in Mar Mikhael
Beirut
Marie Bonte 7. 'A Force to be Reckoned With': The Role and Influence of Alcohol in Leeds' Extreme Metal Scene
Gabby Riches 8. 'Never
Ever Go Down the Bigg Market': Classed and spatialised processes of othering on the 'girls' night out'
Emily Nicholls 9. Young People's Alcohol-Related Urban Im/mobilities
Samantha Wilkinson 10. Parenting Style and Gender Effects on Alcohol Consumptions among University Students in France
Ludovic Gaussot
Loïc Le Minor and Nicolas Palierne 11. Growing up
Going out: Cultural and aesthetic attachment to the night time economy
Oliver Smith 12. 'There Are Limits on What You Can Do': Biographical reconstruction by those bereaved by alcohol-related deaths
Christine Valentine
Lorna Templeton and Richard Velleman 13. Drinking Dilemmas: Making a difference?
Mark Jayne and Gill Valentine