ABSTRACT
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 https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|69 pages
The Terrain of Intoxication
chapter 2|18 pages
Nic'd Up
chapter 3|18 pages
Recreational Drug Use as Everyday Life
chapter 4|17 pages
When the Clock Takes Over
part II|54 pages
Social life of intoxicants
part III|117 pages
Intoxicating Settings
chapter 9|16 pages
The Social Work of Coffee
chapter 10|19 pages
Expanding intoxication
chapter 13|18 pages
How methadone becomes an intoxicant
part IV|48 pages
Intoxication Practices
chapter 17|18 pages
‘Uninhibited play’
part V|51 pages
Alternative Approaches for Studying Intoxication
chapter 19|19 pages
Intoxication Made Visible
chapter 21|16 pages
Passion, Reason and the Politics of Intoxication
part VI|75 pages
Scapegoated Substances
chapter 23|18 pages
Street-Level Policing, Structural Violence and Habitus
chapter 25|22 pages
Symbolic Meaning of the Amphetamine-Type Stimulant Problem Throughout the Restoration of Japanese Society after WWII
part VII|64 pages
Discourses shaping intoxication and people who use intoxicants
chapter 28|16 pages
Fighting Intoxication and Addiction
chapter 29|15 pages
Handling complexity
part VIII|101 pages
Notions of Excess