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Temporary sobriety initiatives: emergence, possibilities and constraints.
- Source :
- Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies; Dec2016, Vol. 30 Issue 6, p646-658, 13p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- At the same time as the Australian media was focusing attention on problems stemming from youthful binge drinking and was decrying a problematic national drinking culture, voluntary (and often philanthropic) campaigns oriented around temporarily giving up alcohol emerged. Although these temporary sobriety initiatives (TSI) originally positioned themselves as a solution to the problems being discussed, their popular appeal proved to be their alignment with larger currents of neoliberal governance in the fields of health, well-being, productivity and civic duty via philanthropy. This critical cultural history conducts a discourse analysis of TSI-generated materials and examines quantitative participant data to better understand how the initiatives framed themselves as a solution to the identified problems at the same time as they ever-more overtly pitched themselves to an already responsibilized segment of the population. The implications of these findings point to the larger role that TSI can play in addressing, in a non-regulatory way, both attitudes and behaviours among the majority of the population who are not considered problem drinkers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10304312
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 118709518
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2016.1231786