Alcohol, binge sobriety and exemplary abstinence / Julie Robert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robert, Julie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alcoholism--Treatment.

Alcoholism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, [2022]

Summary:

"Where did Temporary Sobriety Initiatives (TSIs) such as Dry January, FebFast and Ocsober, come from? And what is their role, if any, in prompting people to revisit their relationship with alcohol? These organized campaigns have flourished throughout the English-speaking world in the past decade. Collectively, they involve tens of thousands of participants and raise substantial sums of money for medical research, as well as drug and alcohol related charities. Alcohol, Abstinence and Binge Sobriety considers these campaigns as part of a lifestyle movement that transcends single events and even singular national contexts. It uses case studies from Australia, the USA and the UK to examine both the short history of TSIs as a response to problematic localized drinking cultures--including binge drinking--and their relationship to a much longer and transnational history of temperance activism. In taking TSIs as a case study of both embodied philanthropy and participatory health promotion, this book considers how TSIs are structured, promoted and experienced as an embodied event to create imitable, and sometimes contradictory, examples of 'responsible drinking'."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction, Exemplary Abstinence and Understanding TSIs

2. TSIs as Phenomenon

3. Temperance Reimagined

4. Public Pedagogy Through Exemplarity

5. TSIs as Pedagogues

6. Lifestyle Heroism

7. Selfish Philanthropists, Selfish Abstainers

8. Unruly Examples

9. Conclusion

Index

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781350167995

1350167991

9781350167988

1350167983

OCLC:

1289419442