Routledge Handbook of Intoxicants and Intoxication

ISBN-13: 9780367178703 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 664 str.

Geoffrey Hunt; Tamar Antin; Vibeke Asmussen Frank

Opis

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

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Introduction  Theme I: The meanings of intoxicants  1. Intoxications and their meanings  2. Nic'd up: a practice theory approach to understanding vaping nicotine as intoxication  3. Recreational drug use as everyday life: explorations of young adults’ gendered motivations for taking drugs in Nigeria  4. When the clock takes over: hangovers in twentieth-century British and American fiction and poetry  Theme II: Social life of intoxicants  5. Intoxicating consumption: capitalism and the commodification of pleasure  6. Producing planned hedonism among opiate users in an online drug market  7. Craft drinks, connoisseurship and intoxication  8. Ecstasy: a synthetic history of MDMA  Theme III: Intoxicating settings  9. The social work of coffee: coffee consumption in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Bosnian diaspora  10. Expanding intoxication: what can drinking places (c.1850-1950) tell us about other intoxicants and other sites?  11. Join us for drinks: intoxication, work and academic conferences  12. Exploring the motivations and social organisation of intoxication in prison settings  13. How methadone becomes an intoxicant: the making of methadone within prisons in the Kyrgyz Republic  14. Trades-offs between intoxication, safety, and sociability within a drug-consumption facility  15. Intoxicants in warfare  Theme IV: Intoxication practices  16. Engaging with drug, set, and setting to understand nicotine use experiences and practices  17. ‘Uninhibited play’: the political and pragmatic dimensions of intoxication within queer cultures  18. Ritual to reflexivity - from promotion and problematisation of intoxication to proportionality  Theme V: Alternative approaches for studying intoxication  19. Intoxication made visible: the sober sciences of intoxication, euphoria, and overdose in the laboratory  20. Trip reports: exploring the experience of psychedelic intoxication  21. Passion, reason and the politics of intoxication: ontopolitically-oriented approaches to alcohol and other drug intoxication  Theme VI: Scapegoated substances  22. Alcohol, slavery and race in Brazil during the long nineteenth century  23. Street-level policing, structural violence and habitus: accounts of street-involved cannabis users in Nigeria  24. Ethnified intoxication – khat use and the Somali community in Sweden  25. Symbolic meaning of the amphetamine-type stimulant problem throughout the restoration of Japanese society after WWII: drug control and the construction of the other  Theme VII: Discourses shaping intoxication and people who use intoxicants  26. Risk, intoxication and death: contemporary media framing of drug-related deaths  27. Clearing the air: toxic healthism and cigarette(s) (smoke) as (in)toxicant(s)  28. Fighting intoxication and addiction: international drug control as a self-perpetuating social system  29. Handling complexity: constituting the relationship between intoxication and violence in Australian alcohol policy discourse  Theme VIII: Notions of excess  30. Altered states: changing conditions of excess in European drinking cultures  31. From ‘pledge’ to ‘public health’: medical responses to Ireland’s drinking culture, c. 1890-2018  32. ‘Drinking himself to death’: the chronic drunkard in British mid-Victorian fiction and culture  33. Tea, addiction and late-Victorian narratives of degeneration, c.1860-1900  34. Conceiving addiction: historical constructions of chronic intoxicant use