Routledge Handbook of Intoxicants and Intoxication: (Routledge International Handbooks)

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 http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Table of 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

About the Author :
Geoffrey Hunt is a Professor at the Centre for Alcohol and Drugs Research at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Director of the Institute for Scientific Analysis in San Francisco, USA. Tamar M.J. Antin is the Founder and Director of the Center for Critical Public Health and a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Scientific Analysis in San Francisco, USA. Vibeke Asmussen Frank is a Professor at the Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research at Aarhus University, Denmark.