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Subject(s)

• Intoxication—Cross-cultural studies [Browse]

Author

• Antin, Tamar M. J. [Browse]
• Frank, Vibeke Asmussen [Browse]

Series

• Routledge international handbooks. [More in this series]
• Routledge International Handbooks

Summary note

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

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

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.

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ISBN

• 0-429-05814-4
• 0-429-60342-8

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