Cultures of Intoxication: Key Issues and Debates - Hardcover

 
9783030352837: Cultures of Intoxication: Key Issues and Debates
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3030352838 ISBN 13: 9783030352837
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Synopsis

This book considers the global discourses and debates about ‘intoxication’, engaging in critical academic discussion around this concept. The problems in defining intoxication are considered, alongside the meanings of intoxication and how these meanings often differ across diverse drug using populations. The way that intoxication has been engaged with over the centuries has affected how particular groups are perceived and responded to, resulting in punitive responses such as drug prohibition, alongside harsh treatment of those who are seen to transgress societal norms and values. Therefore, this collection seeks to unsettle dominant discourses about intoxication and to consider this concept in new, critical ways. Ways of being intoxicated are also defined in this book in their broadest sense; from ‘energy drinks’ and other legal drugs, to recreational use of illicit drugs such as ecstasy, to ‘problematic’ drug use. 

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About the Author

Fiona Hutton is Associate Professor at the Institute of Criminology, Victoria University, New Zealand. She has taught and researched in the academic discipline of Criminology - specifically in the areas of criminological theory, gender, youth crime and cultures, drug policy, harm reduction, alcohol and other drugs - for the past twenty years. 

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This book considers the global discourses and debates about ‘intoxication’, engaging in critical academic discussion around this concept. The problems in defining intoxication are considered, alongside the meanings of intoxication and how these meanings often differ across diverse drug using populations. The way that intoxication has been engaged with over the centuries has affected how particular groups are perceived and responded to, resulting in punitive responses such as drug prohibition, alongside harsh treatment of those who are seen to transgress societal norms and values. Therefore, this collection seeks to unsettle dominant discourses about intoxication and to consider this concept in new, critical ways. Ways of being intoxicated are also defined in this book in their broadest sense; from ‘energy drinks’ and other legal drugs, to recreational use of illicit drugs such as ecstasy, to ‘problematic’ drug use. 

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3030352838
ISBN 13 
9783030352837
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
362
Editor
Hutton Fiona

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