ABSTRACT
This chapter contributes to recent theoretical and empirical work on social reproduction, adult-children interaction, materialities and intergenerational transmission of consumption cultures that are bound up with social rather than individualized notions of consumption. It explores how emotions, embodiment and affect offer insights into differences between children and adult appreciation of everyday practices. The chapter highlights 'more-than-representational' understanding of childhood and family life with regards to 'liminal thresholds' and 'children's agency in the very moment that children themselves are learning about and coming to grips with the constraints and possibilities of the very different structured environments'. It illuminates relationships between childhood, family life and alcohol with reference to emotions, embodiment and affect. The chapter focuses on the ways in which parents'/carers' seek to reconcile the 'liminal' status of alcohol consumption through attempts to ensure inter-generational transmission of pleasures and dangers of alcohol consumption have been shown to conflict with pre-emptive approaches.
