1st Edition

Using Space: Critical Geographies of Drugs and Alcohol

Edited By Christopher M. Moreno, Robert Wilton Copyright 2014
    120 Pages
    by Routledge

    118 Pages
    by Routledge

    The consumption of drugs and alcohol, and the pleasures and problems arising from this consumption, can be understood as embedded and constitutive elements of social, family, and recreational life. At the same time, they are key sites of intervention for a broad array of state and non-state actors focused on regulation, treatment, and recovery.

    This edited volume showcases current research on the complex social and cultural geographies of drugs and alcohol. Taking an avowedly critical approach, the authors draw from a variety of theoretical traditions to explore the socially and spatially embedded nature of alcohol and drug consumption, regulation and treatment, and the ways in which these give rise to particular lived experiences, while foreclosing on others. Together, the chapters question taken-for-granted assumptions about the nature of, and motivations for, drug and alcohol use, and pay direct attention to both the intended and unintended consequences of regulation and treatment initiatives. Despite and, in part, because of this critical stance, chapters hold immediate implications for drug and alcohol policy and public health interventions.

    This book was originally published as a special issue of Social and Cultural Geography.

    1. Introduction: Critical Geographies of Drugs and Alcohol Robert Wilton (McMaster University, Canada), Christopher M. Moreno (San Diego State University, USA)

    2. Drugs, sex, and the geographies of sexual health in Thailand, Southeast Asia Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. (University of Arizona, USA)

    3. Young men's violence and spaces of addiction: opening up the locker room Stuart C. Aitken (San Diego State University)

    4. Accounting for context: exploring the role of objects and spaces in the consumption of alcohol and other drugs Cameron Duff (Monash University, Australia)

    5. Recovery spaces and therapeutic jurisprudence: a case study of the family treatment drug courts Christopher M. Moreno (San Diego State University, USA), Giorgio H. Curti (San Diego State University, USA)

    6. Supportive measures, enabling restraint: governing homeless ‘street drinkers’ in Hamilton, Canada Joshua Evans (Athabasca University, Canada)

    Biography

    Christopher M. Moreno is an adjunct professor of social geography in the Department of Geography at San Diego State University, U.S.A.

    Robert Wilton is a professor of social geography in the School of Geography and Earth Sciences at McMaster University, Canada.