Assembling Drinking Moralities: An Ethnographic Analysis of Youth Alcohol Use in Melbourne

Heavy drinking occurs in complex, contradictory and heavily moralised contexts. The moral dimensions of alcohol use, however, are rarely explicitly examined in the alcohol research and policy literature. In this thesis I analyse ethnographic data on the heavy drinking practices of a network of young...

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Main Author: Wilson, James Charles
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69404
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description Heavy drinking occurs in complex, contradictory and heavily moralised contexts. The moral dimensions of alcohol use, however, are rarely explicitly examined in the alcohol research and policy literature. In this thesis I analyse ethnographic data on the heavy drinking practices of a network of young adults in Melbourne, Australia, to elucidate how local ‘moralities’ of alcohol use come to be assembled, and the effects of such ‘moral assemblages’ on young people’s moral subjectivities.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-694042018-08-01T03:19:08Z Assembling Drinking Moralities: An Ethnographic Analysis of Youth Alcohol Use in Melbourne Wilson, James Charles Heavy drinking occurs in complex, contradictory and heavily moralised contexts. The moral dimensions of alcohol use, however, are rarely explicitly examined in the alcohol research and policy literature. In this thesis I analyse ethnographic data on the heavy drinking practices of a network of young adults in Melbourne, Australia, to elucidate how local ‘moralities’ of alcohol use come to be assembled, and the effects of such ‘moral assemblages’ on young people’s moral subjectivities. 2017 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69404 Curtin University fulltext
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Assembling Drinking Moralities: An Ethnographic Analysis of Youth Alcohol Use in Melbourne
title Assembling Drinking Moralities: An Ethnographic Analysis of Youth Alcohol Use in Melbourne
title_full Assembling Drinking Moralities: An Ethnographic Analysis of Youth Alcohol Use in Melbourne
title_fullStr Assembling Drinking Moralities: An Ethnographic Analysis of Youth Alcohol Use in Melbourne
title_full_unstemmed Assembling Drinking Moralities: An Ethnographic Analysis of Youth Alcohol Use in Melbourne
title_short Assembling Drinking Moralities: An Ethnographic Analysis of Youth Alcohol Use in Melbourne
title_sort assembling drinking moralities: an ethnographic analysis of youth alcohol use in melbourne
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69404