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Alcohol, Binge Sobriety and Exemplary Abstinence (Hardcover)
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Alcohol, Binge Sobriety and Exemplary Abstinence (Hardcover)
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Where did Temporary Sobriety Initiatives (TSIs) such as Dry
January, FebFast and Ocsober, come from? And what is their role, if
any, in prompting people to revisit their relationship with
alcohol? These organized campaigns have flourished throughout the
English-speaking world in the past decade. Collectively, they
involve thousands of participants and raise substantial sums of
money for medical research, as well as drug and alcohol related
charities. Alcohol, Binge Sobriety and Exemplary Abstinence
considers these campaigns as part of a lifestyle movement that
transcends single events and even singular national contexts. It
uses case studies from Australia, the USA and the UK to examine
both the short history of TSIs as a response to problematic
localized drinking cultures – including binge drinking – and
their relationship to a much longer and transnational history of
temperance activism. In taking TSIs as a case study of both
embodied philanthropy and participatory health promotion, this book
considers how TSIs are structured, promoted and experienced as an
embodied event to create imitable, and sometimes contradictory,
examples to create a public pedagogy of ‘responsible drinking’.
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