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Cultures of Intoxication

Key Issues and Debates

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Editors:
  1. Fiona Hutton

    1. Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand

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  • Draws on key researchers to consider the debates around intoxication and society

  • Asks whether we respond adequately to intoxication in terms of harm reduction

  • Considers how intoxication is experienced by diverse groups

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Fiona Hutton
    Pages 1-14

  3. ‘Drugs’ and Intoxication

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Alcohol and Intoxication

      • Antonia Lyons, Kate Kersey
      Pages 17-43

    3. Smoking and Intoxication: From Control to the Buzz

      • Helen Keane
      Pages 45-66

    4. Illicit Drugs and Intoxication

      • Angus Bancroft
      Pages 67-86

    5. Cultures of Intoxication: ‘New’ Psychoactive Substances

      • Fiona Hutton
      Pages 87-110

    6. Alcohol Mixed with Energy Drinks and Intoxication

      • Nicolas Droste, Amy Pennay, Amy Peacock, Peter Miller
      Pages 111-135

  5. Representations of Intoxication

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237
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    2. Media and Intoxication: Media Representations of the Intoxicated

      • Tammy Ayres, Stuart Taylor
      Pages 239-261

    3. Social Media and Intoxication: ‘Tweaker Nation’: Celebrating Drug Use on Tumblr

      • Andy Ruddock
      Pages 263-282

  6. Responses to Intoxication

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 283-283
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    2. Societal Responses to Intoxication

      • Robin Room
      Pages 285-309

    3. Intoxication and Harm Reduction

      • Adrian Barton
      Pages 311-333

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 335-343
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About this book

This book considers the global discourses and debates about ‘intoxication’, engaging in critical academic discussion around this concept. The problems in defining intoxication are considered, alongside the meanings of intoxication and how these meanings often differ across diverse drug using populations. The way that intoxication has been engaged with over the centuries has affected how particular groups are perceived and responded to, resulting in punitive responses such as drug prohibition, alongside harsh treatment of those who are seen to transgress societal norms and values. Therefore, this collection seeks to unsettle dominant discourses about intoxication and to consider this concept in new, critical ways. Ways of being intoxicated are also defined in this book in their broadest sense; from ‘energy drinks’ and other legal drugs, to recreational use of illicit drugs such as ecstasy, to ‘problematic’ drug use. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand

    Fiona Hutton

About the editor

Fiona Hutton is Associate Professor at the Institute of Criminology, Victoria University, New Zealand. She has taught and researched in the academic discipline of Criminology - specifically in the areas of criminological theory, gender, youth crime and cultures, drug policy, harm reduction, alcohol and other drugs - for the past twenty years. 


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