Routledge handbook of intoxicants and intoxication / Geoffrey Hunt, Tamar M. J. Antin, and Vibeke Asmussen Frank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunt, Geoffrey, 1947- author.

Antin, Tamar M. J., author.

Frank, Vibeke Asmussen, author.

Series:

Routledge international handbooks.

Routledge International Handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intoxication--Cross-cultural studies.

Intoxication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 615 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Taylor & Francis 2023

Oxon, UK ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2022]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bringing together scholars from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, this multidisciplinary Handbook offers a comprehensive critical overview of intoxicants and intoxication.

Contents:

Theme I: The meanings of intoxicants

Intoxications and their meanings / Craig Reinarman

Nic'd up: a practice theory approach to understanding vaping nicotine as intoxication / Ruth Lewis, Emily Kaner & Tamar M.J. Antin

Recreational drug use as everyday life: explorations of young adults' gendered motivations for taking drugs in Nigeria / Emeka W. Dumbili, MaryJane Nnajiofor & Emmanuel C. Ezekwe

When the clock takes over: hangovers in twentieth-century British and American fiction and poetry / Jonathon Shears

Theme II: Social life of intoxicants

Intoxicating consumption: capitalism and the commodification of pleasure / Gerda Reith

Producing planned hedonism among opiate users in an online drug market / Angus Bancroft

Craft drinks, connoisseurship and intoxication / Thomas Thurnell-Read

Ecstasy: a synthetic history of MDMA / Peder Clark

Theme III: Intoxicating settings

The social work of coffee: coffee consumption in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Bosnian diaspora / Ana Croegaert

Expanding intoxication: what can drinking places (c.1850-1950) tell us about other intoxicants and other sites? / James Kneale

Join us for drinks: intoxication, work and academic conferences / Helen Keane

Exploring the motivations and social organisation of intoxication in prison settings / Torsten Kolind and Karen Duke

How methadone becomes an intoxicant: the making of methadone within prisons in the Kyrgyz Republic / Lyu Azbel and Frederick L. Altice

Trades-offs between intoxication, safety, and sociability within a drug-consumption facility / Esben Houberg and Siv Schjøll Berge

Intoxicants in warfare /Lukasz Kamieński

Theme IV: Intoxication practices

Engaging with drug, set, and setting to understand nicotine use experiences and practices / Julia McQuoid

'Uninhibited play': the political and pragmatic dimensions of intoxication within queer cultures / Kane Race, Kiran Pienaar, Dean Murphy & Toby Lea

Ritual to reflexivity - from promotion and problematisation of intoxication to proportionality / John O'Brien

Theme V: Alternative approaches for studying intoxication

Intoxication made visible: the sober sciences of intoxication, euphoria, and overdose in the laboratory / Nancy D. Campbell

Trip reports: exploring the experience of psychedelic intoxication / Jonas Bååth and Johan Nordgren

Passion, reason and the politics of intoxication: ontopolitically-oriented approaches to alcohol and other drug intoxication / Suzanne Fraser, Adrian Farrugia & Renae Fomiatti

Theme VI: Scapegoated substances

Alcohol, slavery and race in Brazil during the long nineteenth century / Lucas Brunozi Avelar and Deborah Toner

Street-level policing, structural violence and habitus: accounts of street-involved cannabis users in Nigeria / Ediomo-Ubong E. Nelson

Ethnified intoxication

khat use and the Somali community in Sweden / Johan Nordgren

Symbolic meaning of the amphetamine-type stimulant problem throughout the restoration of Japanese society after WWII: drug control and the construction of the other / Akihiko Sato

Theme VII: Discourses shaping intoxication and people who use intoxicants

Risk, intoxication and death: contemporary media framing of drug-related deaths / Susanne MacGregor and Betsy Thom

Clearing the air: toxic healthism and cigarette(s) (smoke) as (in)toxicant(s) / Qian Hui Tan

Fighting intoxication and addiction: international drug control as a self-perpetuating social system / Axel Klein

Handling complexity: constituting the relationship between intoxication and violence in Australian alcohol policy discourse / David Moore, Helen Keane, Duane Duncan & Emily Lenton

Theme VIII: Notions of excess

Altered states: changing conditions of excess in European drinking cultures / Dorota Dias-Lewandowska, Laura Fenton, Sam Goodman & Beat Kümin

From 'pledge' to 'public health': medical responses to Ireland's drinking culture, c. 1890-2018 / Alice Mauger

'Drinking himself to death': the chronic drunkard in British mid-Victorian fiction and culture / Pam Lock

Information Classification: General

Tea, addiction and late-Victorian narratives of degeneration, c.1860-1900 / Ian Miller

Conceiving addiction: historical constructions of chronic intoxicant use / David Clemis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-05814-4

0-429-60342-8

9780429058141

OCLC:

1348934472