Main description:

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.

Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Contents:

Introduction Theme I: The meanings of intoxicants 1. Intoxications and their meanings 2. Nic'd up: a practice theory approach to understanding vaping nicotine as intoxication 3. Recreational drug use as everyday life: explorations of young adults' gendered motivations for taking drugs in Nigeria 4. When the clock takes over: hangovers in twentieth-century British and American fiction and poetry Theme II: Social life of intoxicants 5. Intoxicating consumption: capitalism and the commodification of pleasure 6. Producing planned hedonism among opiate users in an online drug market 7. Craft drinks, connoisseurship and intoxication 8. Ecstasy: a synthetic history of MDMA Theme III: Intoxicating settings 9. The social work of coffee: coffee consumption in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Bosnian diaspora 10. Expanding intoxication: what can drinking places (c.1850-1950) tell us about other intoxicants and other sites? 11. Join us for drinks: intoxication, work and academic conferences 12. Exploring the motivations and social organisation of intoxication in prison settings 13. How methadone becomes an intoxicant: the making of methadone within prisons in the Kyrgyz Republic 14. Trades-offs between intoxication, safety, and sociability within a drug-consumption facility 15. Intoxicants in warfare Theme IV: Intoxication practices 16. Engaging with drug, set, and setting to understand nicotine use experiences and practices 17. 'Uninhibited play': the political and pragmatic dimensions of intoxication within queer cultures 18. Ritual to reflexivity - from promotion and problematisation of intoxication to proportionality Theme V: Alternative approaches for studying intoxication 19. Intoxication made visible: the sober sciences of intoxication, euphoria, and overdose in the laboratory 20. Trip reports: exploring the experience of psychedelic intoxication 21. Passion, reason and the politics of intoxication: ontopolitically-oriented approaches to alcohol and other drug intoxication Theme VI: Scapegoated substances 22. Alcohol, slavery and race in Brazil during the long nineteenth century 23. Street-level policing, structural violence and habitus: accounts of street-involved cannabis users in Nigeria 24. Ethnified intoxication - khat use and the Somali community in Sweden 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 Theme VII: Discourses shaping intoxication and people who use intoxicants 26. Risk, intoxication and death: contemporary media framing of drug-related deaths 27. Clearing the air: toxic healthism and cigarette(s) (smoke) as (in)toxicant(s) 28. Fighting intoxication and addiction: international drug control as a self-perpetuating social system 29. Handling complexity: constituting the relationship between intoxication and violence in Australian alcohol policy discourse Theme VIII: Notions of excess 30. Altered states: changing conditions of excess in European drinking cultures 31. From 'pledge' to 'public health': medical responses to Ireland's drinking culture, c. 1890-2018 32. 'Drinking himself to death': the chronic drunkard in British mid-Victorian fiction and culture 33. Tea, addiction and late-Victorian narratives of degeneration, c.1860-1900 34. Conceiving addiction: historical constructions of chronic intoxicant use