Bringing together scholars from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, this multidisciplinary Handbook offers a comprehensive critical overview of intoxicants and intoxication.
The Handbook is divided into 34 chapters across eight thematic sections covering a wide range of issues, including the meanings of intoxicants; the social life of intoxicants; intoxication settings; intoxication practices; alternative approaches to the study of intoxication; scapegoated intoxicants; discourses shaping intoxication; and changing notions of excess. It explores a range of different intoxicants, including alcohol, tobacco, coffee, tea, and legal and illicit drugs, including amphetamine, cannabis, ecstasy, khat, methadone, and opiates. Chapter length case studies explore these intoxicants in a variety of countries, including the USA, the UK, Australia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Denmark, Ireland, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Singapore, and Sweden, across a broad timespan covering the nineteenth century to the present day.
This wide-ranging Handbook will be of great interest to researchers, students, and instructors within the humanities and social sciences with an interest in a wide range of different intoxicants and different intoxication practices.
Author(s): Geofrey Hunt, Tamar M.J. Antin, Vibeke Asmussen Frank
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 639
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: The Terrain of Intoxication
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
PART 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
PART 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 Trade-offs between intoxication, safety, and sociability within a drug-consumption facility
15 Intoxicants in warfare
PART 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
PART 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
PART 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
PART 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
PART 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
Index
