1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Intoxicants and Intoxication
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.
Chapters 15 and 31 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
Introduction
Geoffrey Hunt, Tamar M.J. Antin and Vibeke Asmussen Frank
Theme I: The meanings of intoxicants
1. Intoxications and their meanings
Craig Reinarman
2. Nic'd up: a practice theory approach to understanding vaping nicotine as intoxication
Ruth Lewis, Emily Kaner & Tamar M.J. Antin
3. 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
4. When the clock takes over: hangovers in twentieth-century British and American fiction and poetry
Jonathon Shears
Theme II: Social life of intoxicants
5. Intoxicating consumption: capitalism and the commodification of pleasure
Gerda Reith
6. Producing planned hedonism among opiate users in an online drug market
Angus Bancroft
7. Craft drinks, connoisseurship and intoxication
Thomas Thurnell-Read
8. Ecstasy: a synthetic history of MDMA
Peder Clark
Theme III: Intoxicating settings
9. The social work of coffee: coffee consumption in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Bosnian diaspora
Ana Croegaert
10. Expanding intoxication: what can drinking places (c.1850-1950) tell us about other intoxicants and other sites?
James Kneale
11. Join us for drinks: intoxication, work and academic conferences
Helen Keane
12. Exploring the motivations and social organisation of intoxication in prison settings
Torsten Kolind and Karen Duke
13. How methadone becomes an intoxicant: the making of methadone within prisons in the Kyrgyz Republic
Lyu Azbel and Frederick L. Altice
14. Trades-offs between intoxication, safety, and sociability within a drug-consumption facility
Esben Houberg and Siv Schjøll Berge
15. Intoxicants in warfare
Lukasz Kamieński
Theme IV: Intoxication practices
16. Engaging with drug, set, and setting to understand nicotine use experiences and practices
Julia McQuoid
17. ‘Uninhibited play’: the political and pragmatic dimensions of intoxication within queer cultures
Kane Race, Kiran Pienaar, Dean Murphy & Toby Lea
18. Ritual to reflexivity - from promotion and problematisation of intoxication to proportionality
John O’Brien
Theme V: Alternative approaches for studying intoxication
19. Intoxication made visible: the sober sciences of intoxication, euphoria, and overdose in the laboratory
Nancy D. Campbell
20. Trip reports: exploring the experience of psychedelic intoxication
Jonas Bååth and Johan Nordgren
21. Passion, reason and the politics of intoxication: ontopolitically-oriented approaches to alcohol and other drug intoxication
Suzanne Fraser, Adrian Farrugia & Renae Fomiatti
Part VI: Scapegoated substances
22. Alcohol, slavery and race in Brazil during the long nineteenth century
Lucas Brunozi Avelar and Deborah Toner
23. Street-level policing, structural violence and habitus: accounts of street-involved cannabis users in Nigeria
Ediomo-Ubong E. Nelson
24. Ethnified intoxication – khat use and the Somali community in Sweden
Johan Nordgren
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
Akihiko Sato
Part VII: Discourses shaping intoxication and people who use intoxicants
26. Risk, intoxication and death: contemporary media framing of drug-related deaths
Susanne MacGregor and Betsy Thom
27. Clearing the air: toxic healthism and cigarette(s) (smoke) as (in)toxicant(s)
Qian Hui Tan
28. Fighting intoxication and addiction: international drug control as a self-perpetuating social system
Axel Klein
29. Handling complexity: constituting the relationship between intoxication and violence in Australian alcohol policy discourse
David Moore, Helen Keane, Duane Duncan & Emily Lenton
Part VIII: Notions of excess
30. Altered states: changing conditions of excess in European drinking cultures
Dorota Dias-Lewandowska, Laura Fenton, Sam Goodman & Beat Kümin
31. From ‘pledge’ to ‘public health’: medical responses to Ireland’s drinking culture, c. 1890-2018
Alice Mauger
32. ‘Drinking himself to death’: the chronic drunkard in British mid-Victorian fiction and culture
Pam Lock
33. Tea, addiction and late-Victorian narratives of degeneration, c.1860-1900
Ian Miller
34. Conceiving addiction: historical constructions of chronic intoxicant use
David Clemis
Biography
Geoffrey Hunt is a Professor at the Centre for Alcohol and Drugs Research at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Director of the Institute for Scientific Analysis in San Francisco, USA.
Tamar M.J. Antin is the Founder and Director of the Center for Critical Public Health and a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Scientific Analysis in San Francisco, USA.
Vibeke Asmussen Frank is a Professor at the Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research at Aarhus University, Denmark.
