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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2017
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| author | Wilson, James Charles |
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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 |
| spellingShingle | Wilson, James Charles 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 |