Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences
This paper draws on 12 months of ethnographic research to explore the drinking experiences of young people, aged 15-24, living in the suburban case study locations of Chorlton and Wythenshawe, Manchester, UK. This paper moves beyond the contemporary geographical imaginary of alcohol consumption as a...
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| description | This paper draws on 12 months of ethnographic research to explore the drinking experiences of young people, aged 15-24, living in the suburban case study locations of Chorlton and Wythenshawe, Manchester, UK. This paper moves beyond the contemporary geographical imaginary of alcohol consumption as a city-centre issue, to explore suburban indoor and outdoor drinking cultures. Through paying attention to atmospheres of darkness and lightness, I show how drinkscapes are active constituents of young people’s drinking occasions, rather than passive backdrops. More than this, I illustrate how young people transform dark and light drinkscapes, thereby shaping the drinking practices of themselves and others. Through looking at the interplay between the curating of an atmosphere, and the experience of that atmosphere when bodies, and practices are inserted into it, this paper offers a different take on the ‘drinking at home is bad, drinking in public spaces is good’ argument, with original policy suggestions. |
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| spelling | nottingham-370912020-05-04T18:13:56Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/37091/ Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences Wilkinson, Samantha This paper draws on 12 months of ethnographic research to explore the drinking experiences of young people, aged 15-24, living in the suburban case study locations of Chorlton and Wythenshawe, Manchester, UK. This paper moves beyond the contemporary geographical imaginary of alcohol consumption as a city-centre issue, to explore suburban indoor and outdoor drinking cultures. Through paying attention to atmospheres of darkness and lightness, I show how drinkscapes are active constituents of young people’s drinking occasions, rather than passive backdrops. More than this, I illustrate how young people transform dark and light drinkscapes, thereby shaping the drinking practices of themselves and others. Through looking at the interplay between the curating of an atmosphere, and the experience of that atmosphere when bodies, and practices are inserted into it, this paper offers a different take on the ‘drinking at home is bad, drinking in public spaces is good’ argument, with original policy suggestions. Taylor & Francis online 2016-09-02 Article PeerReviewed Wilkinson, Samantha (2016) Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences. Social & Cultural Geography . pp. 1-19. ISSN 1464-9365 alcohol consumption; atmospheres; darkness; lightness; spaces of drinking; young people http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649365.2016.1227872 doi:10.1080/14649365.2016.1227872 doi:10.1080/14649365.2016.1227872 |
| spellingShingle | alcohol consumption; atmospheres; darkness; lightness; spaces of drinking; young people Wilkinson, Samantha Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences |
| title | Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences |
| title_full | Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences |
| title_fullStr | Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences |
| title_full_unstemmed | Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences |
| title_short | Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences |
| title_sort | drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences |
| topic | alcohol consumption; atmospheres; darkness; lightness; spaces of drinking; young people |
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