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This volume contains an Open Access Chapter. Authenticity has
become a buzzword for our times. Much of the travel industry is
built around the provision of ‘authentic’ experiences, global
brands fight to be seen as ‘authentic’ and social media
platforms are awash with arguments about the authenticity of this
post or that vlogger. But what do we mean by authenticity? And why
have these debates grown so dramatically in the last two decades?
This collection explores the complex and at times controversial
idea of authenticity. Addressing the concept from an
interdisciplinary perspective and offering a diverse range of
topical cases, the authors bring together the latest empirical and
conceptual scholarship addressing authenticity and its centrality
to debates about contemporary culture, media and society. In this
way, the authors are able to pinpoint the growing significance of
the concept of authenticity, the various ways in which different
disciplines approach the topic, and possible ways of advancing the
field across disciplines. With sections covering travel and
tourism, branding and marketing, popular culture, social media and
political communication this exciting and innovative collection
will make fascinating and crucial reading for scholars and students
across the social sciences and humanities, and helps to define what
these different disciplines mean by authenticity.
This volume explores generational differences in alcohol
consumption practices and examines the changing role of alcohol
across the life course. It considers generational patterns in
where, how and why people buy and consume alcohol and how these may
interact with identity and belonging and considers how
drinking alcohol in adolescence, adulthood, middle-age or later
life takes on different functions, meanings and tensions. Alcohol
is shown to play an important role in biographical transitions,
such as in the coming of age rituals that mark the passage from
adolescences to adulthood, whilst drinking alcohol in adulthood and
in later life takes on new meanings, pleasures and risks in light
of shifting roles and responsibilities relating to work, leisure
and the family. The empirically-informed contributions draw on a
range of diverse disciplinary backgrounds and a range of cultural
contexts provides a nuanced examination of the role of alcohol at
different life course stages and explores both continuity and
change between generations.
This volume explores generational differences in alcohol
consumption practices and examines the changing role of alcohol
across the life course. It considers generational patterns in
where, how and why people buy and consume alcohol and how these may
interact with identity and belonging and considers how drinking
alcohol in adolescence, adulthood, middle-age or later life takes
on different functions, meanings and tensions. Alcohol is shown to
play an important role in biographical transitions, such as in the
coming of age rituals that mark the passage from adolescences to
adulthood, whilst drinking alcohol in adulthood and in later life
takes on new meanings, pleasures and risks in light of shifting
roles and responsibilities relating to work, leisure and the
family. The empirically-informed contributions draw on a range of
diverse disciplinary backgrounds and a range of cultural contexts
provides a nuanced examination of the role of alcohol at different
life course stages and explores both continuity and change between
generations.
Drinking and drunkenness have become a focal point for political
and media debates to contest notions of responsibility, discipline
and risk; yet, at the same time, academic studies have highlighted
the positive aspects of drinking in relation to sociability,
belonging and identity. These issues are at the heart of this
volume, which brings together the work of academics and researchers
exploring social and cultural aspects of contemporary drinking
practices. These drinking practices are enormously varied and are
spatially and culturally defined. The contributions to the volume
draw on research settings from across the UK and beyond to
demonstrate both the complexity and diversity of drinking
subjectivities and practices. Across these examples tensions
relating to gender, social class, age and the life course are
particularly prominent. Rather than align to now long-established
moral discourses about what constitutes 'good' and 'bad' drinking,
sociological approaches to alcohol foreground the vivid, lived,
nature of alcohol consumption and the associated experiences of
drunkenness and intoxication. In doing so, the volume illuminates
the controversial yet important social and cultural roles played by
drink for individuals and groups across a range of social contexts.
Drinking and drunkenness have become a focal point for political
and media debates to contest notions of responsibility, discipline
and risk; yet, at the same time, academic studies have highlighted
the positive aspects of drinking in relation to sociability,
belonging and identity. These issues are at the heart of this
volume, which brings together the work of academics and researchers
exploring social and cultural aspects of contemporary drinking
practices. These drinking practices are enormously varied and are
spatially and culturally defined. The contributions to the volume
draw on research settings from across the UK and beyond to
demonstrate both the complexity and diversity of drinking
subjectivities and practices. Across these examples tensions
relating to gender, social class, age and the life course are
particularly prominent. Rather than align to now long-established
moral discourses about what constitutes 'good' and 'bad' drinking,
sociological approaches to alcohol foreground the vivid, lived,
nature of alcohol consumption and the associated experiences of
drunkenness and intoxication. In doing so, the volume illuminates
the controversial yet important social and cultural roles played by
drink for individuals and groups across a range of social contexts.
What images come to mind when you read the word 'intoxication'?
What behaviour do you associate with the word 'drunk'? When you
hear the word 'drug', what images do you recall? This textbook
provides an essential and thorough grounding in debates about the
role of intoxication in contemporary society, from social and
cultural perspectives. It examines intoxication in the broadest
sense as including both legal and illegal substances and both
culturally accepted and socially stigmatised practices. Given the
pace of recent changes in policy and practice - from the
increasingly common legalisation of cannabis, to the recent trend
of sobriety amongst adolescents and young adults - this book stands
out by offering both a through historical and theoretical overview
and a topical and forward looking exploration of current debates.
It adopts a multi-scale approach to examine wider patterns of
change so it considers the subjective experiences of the role
intoxication plays in the lives of individuals and groups, in the
construction of diverse identities and how this differs by age,
gender and ethnicity. The authors play particular attention to the
way in which the state justifies interventions based on moral,
health and criminal justice discourses and also consider the role
played by other individuals and institutions, not least the mass
media and the alcohol industry, in propagating and challenging
common sense explanations of intoxication. It speaks to
undergraduates, master's students and above, with a range of
pedagogic features, and offers insights into policy and practice.
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