Using Space Critical Geographies Of Drugs And Alcohol

Author : Christopher M. Moreno,Robert Wilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317849919

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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.

Author : Christopher M. Moreno,Robert Wilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317849926

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Using Space: Critical Geographies of Drugs and Alcohol by Christopher M. Moreno,Robert Wilton Pdf

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.

Author : Christian Lenz
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839434413

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Geographies of Love by Christian Lenz Pdf

»Geographies of Love« is the first study to explore the cultural lifeworlds of British, Australian and Indian chick- and ladlit characters. Offering unique case studies including »Bridget Jones's Diary«, »About a Boy« and »Almost Single«, the book explores how women and men search for love and how they commit themselves to romances in specific spaces and places: the home and the office as well as shops, clubs and bars. This cross-disciplinary study provides scholars, students and keen readers with multiple points of access and easily-relatable situations. It applies the complex phenomenon of cultural geographies within the field of literary studies and sheds new light on a most passionate feeling.

Author : Torsten Kolind,Betsy Thom,Geoffrey Hunt
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781473944183

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The SAGE Handbook of Drug & Alcohol Studies by Torsten Kolind,Betsy Thom,Geoffrey Hunt Pdf

With contributions from leading international academics across the social sciences, this accessible handbook takes a critical look at the key theories, disciplinary approaches, contemporary issues and debates in the field. · Part I Central Social Science Theories Drug and Alcohol Studies · Part II Pillars in Social Science Drug and Alcohol Studies · Part III Controversies and New Approaches in Social Science Drug and Alcohol Studies This Handbook is an excellent reference text for the growing number of academics, students, scientists and practitioners in the drug and alcohol studies community.

Author : Kristof Van Assche,Monica Gruezmacher,Lochner Marais,Xaquin Perez-Sindin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000987522

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Resource Communities by Kristof Van Assche,Monica Gruezmacher,Lochner Marais,Xaquin Perez-Sindin Pdf

This book provides an innovative approach to understanding the governance of resource communities, by showcasing how the past and present informs the future. Resource communities have complicated relationships with the past, and this makes their relationship with the future, and the future itself, also complicated. The book digs deeply into the myriad legacies left by a history of resource extraction in a community and makes use of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives to understand the complex issues being faced by a range of different communities that are reliant on different types of resources across the world. From coal and gold mining, to fishing towns and logging communities, the book explores the legacies of boom and bust economies, social memory, trauma and identity, the interactions between power and knowledge and the implications for adaptive governance. Balancing conceptual and theoretical understandings with empirical and practical knowledge of resource communities, natural resource use and social-ecological relationships, the book argues that solutions for individual communities need to be embraced in the community and not just in the perspectives of visiting experts. Linking the past, present and futures of resource communities in a new way, the book concludes by providing practical recommendations for breaking open dependencies on the past, including deepening awareness of the social, economic and environmental contexts, establishing strong governance and developing community strategies, plans and policies for the future. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of natural resource governance and management, extractive industries, environmental policy, community planning and development, environmental geography and sustainable development, as well as policymakers involved in supporting community development in natural resource-dependent communities across the world.

Author : Thomas Thurnell-Read
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317395614

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Drinking Dilemmas by Thomas Thurnell-Read Pdf

Drinking and drunkenness have become a focal point for political and media debates to contest notions of responsibility, discipline and risk; yet, at the same time, academic studies have highlighted the positive aspects of drinking in relation to sociability, belonging and identity. These issues are at the heart of this volume, which brings together the work of academics and researchers exploring social and cultural aspects of contemporary drinking practices. These drinking practices are enormously varied and are spatially and culturally defined. The contributions to the volume draw on research settings from across the UK and beyond to demonstrate both the complexity and diversity of drinking subjectivities and practices. Across these examples tensions relating to gender, social class, age and the life course are particularly prominent. Rather than align to now long-established moral discourses about what constitutes ‘good’ and ‘bad’ drinking, sociological approaches to alcohol foreground the vivid, lived, nature of alcohol consumption and the associated experiences of drunkenness and intoxication. In doing so, the volume illuminates the controversial yet important social and cultural roles played by drink for individuals and groups across a range of social contexts.

Author : Stewart Williams,Barney Warf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351791106

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Drugs, Law, People, Place and the State by Stewart Williams,Barney Warf Pdf

Though any psychoactive substance can be revered or reviled as a drug, as people’s cultural norms shift, ultimately its status is determined in law by the state. This publication explores the regulation of drugs – alcohol and cannabis to heroin and cocaine – and practices such as social drinking and public injecting under political regimes. Drugs are discussed in their geographical contexts: the colonial legacy of cannabis prohibition for bioprospecting in Africa; the veracity of the persistent notion of the narco-state; Turkey’s governance of drinking amid civil unrest; and alcohol’s place in the neoliberal political economy of Ireland. In addition, drug policies are examined: from problems in managing drug-related litter in the UK to supervised injecting facility provision in Australia; harm reduction in Canada; and the global network of drug policy activists. Place is significant, but porous borders, territorial overlaps and multi-scalar linkages are influential in remaking the world through current challenges to the ‘war on drugs’. This book was originally published as a special issue of Space & Polity.

Author : Nadia von Benzon,Lorraine Van Blerk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351180825

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Geographical Research with 'Vulnerable Groups' by Nadia von Benzon,Lorraine Van Blerk Pdf

Drawing on varied expertise from specialisms across the sub-disciplines of social and cultural geography, this book seeks to interrogate what it is to do research with people widely considered to be vulnerable. Written from an emancipatory standpoint, this book addresses the ethical and practical challenges that face researchers working with marginalised people. With chapters exploring the authors’ own experiences of working with a wide range of participants including homeless people, indigenous peoples, drug addicts, learning disabled children, and prisoners, the book draws on research undertaken by academics across the globe. Geographical Research with ‘Vulnerable Groups’ unpicks and interrogates each part of the research process, from obtaining ethics permission from review bodies, to recruitment and gatekeepers, through to dissemination of research findings. Throughout the discussion, authors foreground the relational identities of the actors in the research process, highlighting the ways in which institutional attempts to protect marginalised people from risk, perpetuate a perceived, and even material, vulnerability. This honest and empirically driven text will provide an illuminating insight for researchers embarking on research with marginalised people. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Social & Cultural Geography.

Author : Mark Jayne,Gill Valentine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351952361

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Childhood, Family, Alcohol by Mark Jayne,Gill Valentine Pdf

Drawing together international research from the fields of geography, alcohol studies, sociology, psychology and childhood studies, Jayne and Valentine explore children’s understandings and experiences of alcohol consumption and the role of alcohol in family life. Chapters address both extra-familial ’norms’ about parenting and drinking cultures which are generated in wider society (through law/regulation, media/advertising and social networks etc.) and intra-familial ’norms’, including the modelling behaviour of family members’, attitudes to alcohol, drinking habits and practices, rules and guidance, and initiating children to drinking. Based on empirical research undertaken in the UK, and drawing on studies from around the world, Childhood, Family, Alcohol advances theoretical debates and offers insights relevant to policy and practice by: · adopting a cross-generational perspective on drinking cultures · exploring pre-teen children’s understandings of alcohol · focusing on the significance of the spaces of everyday family life · considering adult alcohol consumption, drinking practices and drunken performativities · reflecting on social/individualized consumption, social reproduction, adult-children interaction and materialities · showing the importance of non-(and more-than) representational understanding of the complexities of childhood, family life and alcohol consumption.

Author : Mark Jayne,Gill Valentine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317182689

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Alcohol, Drinking, Drunkenness by Mark Jayne,Gill Valentine Pdf

While disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, politics, social policy and the health and medical sciences have a tradition of exploring the centrality of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness to people's lives, geographers have only previously addressed these topics as a peripheral concern. Over the past few years, however, this view has begun to change, accelerated by an upsurge in interest in alcohol consumption relating to political and popular debate in countries throughout the world. This book represents the first systematic overview of geographies of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness. It asks what role alcohol, drinking and drunkenness plays in people's lives and how space and place are key constituents of alcohol consumption. It also examines the economic, political, social, cultural and spatial practices and processes that are bound up with alcohol, drinking and drunkenness. Designed as a reference text, each chapter blends theoretical material with empirical case studies in order to analyse drinking in public and private space, in the city and the countryside, as well as focusing on gender, generations, ethnicity and emotional and embodied geographies.

Author : Yonette F. Thomas,Douglas Richardson,Ivan Cheung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1402088477

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Geography and Drug Addiction by Yonette F. Thomas,Douglas Richardson,Ivan Cheung Pdf

Author : Stewart Williams,Barney Warf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351791090

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Drugs, Law, People, Place and the State by Stewart Williams,Barney Warf Pdf

Though any psychoactive substance can be revered or reviled as a drug, as people’s cultural norms shift, ultimately its status is determined in law by the state. This publication explores the regulation of drugs – alcohol and cannabis to heroin and cocaine – and practices such as social drinking and public injecting under political regimes. Drugs are discussed in their geographical contexts: the colonial legacy of cannabis prohibition for bioprospecting in Africa; the veracity of the persistent notion of the narco-state; Turkey’s governance of drinking amid civil unrest; and alcohol’s place in the neoliberal political economy of Ireland. In addition, drug policies are examined: from problems in managing drug-related litter in the UK to supervised injecting facility provision in Australia; harm reduction in Canada; and the global network of drug policy activists. Place is significant, but porous borders, territorial overlaps and multi-scalar linkages are influential in remaking the world through current challenges to the ‘war on drugs’. This book was originally published as a special issue of Space & Polity.

Author : Yonette F. Thomas,Douglas Richardson,Ivan Cheung
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402085087

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Geography and Drug Addiction by Yonette F. Thomas,Douglas Richardson,Ivan Cheung Pdf

Making Connections: Geography and Drug Addiction Geography involves making connections – connections in our world among people and places, cultures, human activities, and natural processes. It involves understa- ing the relationships and ‘connections’ between seemingly disparate or unrelated ideas and between what is and what might be. Geography also involves connecting with people. When I rst encountered an extraordinarily vibrant, intelligent, and socially engaged scientist at a private d- ner several years ago, I was immediately captivated by the intensity of her passion to understand how and why people become addicted to drugs, and what could be done to treat or prevent drug addiction. Fortunately, she was willing to think beyond the bounds of her own discipline in her search for answers. Our conversation that evening, which began with her research on fundamental biochemical processes of drug addiction in the human body, evolved inevitably to an exploration of the ways in which research on the geographical context of drug addiction might contribute to the better understanding of etiology of addiction, its diffusion, its interaction with geographically variable environmental, social, and economic factors, and the strategies for its treatment and prevention. This fascinating woman, I soon learned, was Nora Volkow, the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse as well as the granddaughter of Leon Trotsky.

Author : Torsten Kolind,Betsy Thom,Geoffrey Hunt
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781473944190

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The SAGE Handbook of Drug & Alcohol Studies by Torsten Kolind,Betsy Thom,Geoffrey Hunt Pdf

A two-volume handbook on the subject of drugs and alcohol.

Author : John Jung
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781412967648

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Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Behavior by John Jung Pdf

""Excellent text for covering alcohol and other drugs of abuse.""