Alcohol, Drinking, Drunkenness: (Dis)Orderly Spaces

169 Pages·2011·2.04 MB·English

by  Mark Jayne

Alcohol, Drinking, Drunkenness
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Alcohol, Drinking, Drunkenness
(Dis)orderly spaces
MArk JAyne
University of Manchester, UK
gill VAlentine
University of Leeds, UK
sArAh l. hollowAy
Loughborough University, UK
© Mark Jayne, gill Valentine and sarah l. holloway 2011
All rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval
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Mark Jayne, gill Valentine and sarah l. holloway have asserted their rights under the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the authors of this work.
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Jayne, Mark, 1970–
(Dis)orderly geographies : alcohol, drinking, drunkenness.
1. Drinking of alcoholic beverages. 2. Alcoholism. 3. human geography.
i. title ii. Valentine, gill, 1965– iii. holloway, sarah l., 1970–
394.1’3’09–dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jayne, Mark, 1970–
Alcohol, drinking, drunkeness : (dis)orderly spaces / by Mark Jayne, gill Valentine and
sarah l. holloway.
p. cm.
includes bibliographical references and index.
isBn 978-0-7546-7160-2 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Drinking of alcoholic beverages—
case studies. 2. Drunkenness (criminal law)—case studies. i. Valentine, gill, 1965–
ii. holloway, sarah l., 1970– iii. title.
hV5035.J38 2011
362.2920941—dc22
2010034762
isBn 9780754671602 (hbk)
isBn 9781409423300 (ebk)
contents
List of Tables vii
Acknowledgements ix
introduction geographies of Alcohol, Drinking and Drunkenness 1
1 the city 13
2 the countryside 29
3 home 43
4 gender 59
5 ethnicity 73
6 generations 87
7 emotions and Bodies 107
Afterword‘one for the road?’ 121
Appendices:
1 case studies and research Design 125
2 Definition of Binge Drinking and Guide to Alcohol Unit Measurements 131
3 UK Governments’ National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification 133
Bibliography 135
Index 155
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list of tables
3.1 uk Adults’ Frequency of Drinking Alcoholic Beverages in and out
of home, 2004 45
3.2 regular Drinking Venues in the Past 12 months 46
4.1 gender and Drinking level, location and Motivation 64
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Acknowledgements
we would like to thank the Joseph rowntree Foundation for supporting the
research presented in this book. in particular, we are very grateful to charlie lloyd
for his encouragement and advice throughout the project. we are also grateful
to the advisory group for their valuable contributions to the development of the
research: Mike Atkinson (formerly, eden Valley Primary care trust), Jennie
hammond (stoke-on-trent Drug and Alcohol Action), Anne Jenkins (Alcohol
concern), Andrew Mcneill (institute of Alcohol studies), Mandy nevin (Alcohol
and Drug services in staffordshire), David Poley (the Portman group), gregor
russell (formely Director of commissioning, stoke-on-trent Primary care trust),
David sibley (university of leeds), Betsy thom (Middlesex university) and
rebecca wagstaff (cumbria Primary care trust). we also wish to acknowledge
the contribution of Mahmood Mizra and tassnim hussain who conducted the
interviews with members of the Pakistani Muslim community in stoke-on-trent
and Paul norman (university of leeds), who advised on the analysis of some of
the quantitative data. charlotte knell worked as a research assistant on the project,
undertaking fieldwork in Eden, and we want to thank her for her hard work and
commitment to the project.
Mark would like to thank his colleagues at the university of Manchester and
‘down the road’ at Manchester Metropolitan university, as well as David Bell,
Mike leyshon, slavomira Ferencuhova, the wollongong Boys, Phil hubbard,
Dr and Mrs Potts, Dr Jon hill, Mark Adams and in particular ‘evans the steam’.
special thanks to Daisy.
Professor sarah holloway is a Philip leverhulme Prize winner and gratefully
acknowledges the leverhulme trust’s support for her research.
the Authors would like to thank carolyn court, Val rose and sarah horsley at
Ashgate for their patience and support.
chapters in this book draw, in parts, on empirical material and arguments
published elsewhere. the authors and publishers would like to thank copyright
holders for permission to reproduce the following material:
sage Publications ltd, london, los Angeles, new Delhi, singapore and
washington Dc for permission to reproduce from: Jayne, M., Valentine, g., and
holloway s.l. (2008), ‘geographies of Alcohol, Drinking and Drunkenness: A
review of Progress’, Progress in Human Geography 32/2: 247–263; Jayne, M.,
holloway, s.l. and Valentine, g. (2006), ‘Drunk and Disorderly: Alcohol, urban
life and Public space’, Progress in Human Geography 30/4: 451–468.