TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robert,Julie
TI  - Alcohol, Binge Sobriety and Exemplary Abstinence
SN  - 9781350168008
AV  - HV5035 .R63 2022eb
U1  - 362.292 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London [England]
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - Alcoholism
KW  - Treatment
KW  - Alcoholics
KW  - Care
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction, Exemplary Abstinence and Understanding TSIs -- 2. TSIs as Phenomenon -- 3. Temperance Reimagined -- 4. Public Pedagogy Through Exemplarity -- 5. TSIs as Pedagogues -- 6. Lifestyle Heroism -- 7. Selfish Philanthropists, Selfish Abstainers -- 8. Unruly Examples -- 9. Conclusion -- Index -- Bibliography; Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers
N2  - "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 tens of thousands of participants and raise substantial sums of money for medical research, as well as drug and alcohol related charities. Alcohol, Abstinence and Binge Sobriety 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 of 'responsible drinking'."--
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350168008?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
ER  -