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I don't know anyone that has two drinks a day : young people, alcohol and the government of pleasure

Harrison, Lyn, Kelly, Peter, Lindsay, Jo, Advocat, Jenny and Hickey, Christopher 2011, I don't know anyone that has two drinks a day : young people, alcohol and the government of pleasure, Health, risk and society, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 469-486.

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Title I don't know anyone that has two drinks a day : young people, alcohol and the government of pleasure
Author(s) Harrison, Lyn
Kelly, Peter
Lindsay, Jo
Advocat, Jenny
Hickey, Christopher
Journal name Health, risk and society
Volume number 13
Issue number 5
Start page 469
End page 486
Publisher Routledge
Place of publication London, England
Publication date 2011-08-05
ISSN 1369-8575
Keyword(s) pleasure
neo-liberal governance
risk
drinking cultures
health education
young people
Summary Problematic alcohol consumption is a major public health, health education and health promotion issue in Australia and internationally. In an effort to better understand young people's drinking patterns and motivations we investigated the cultural drivers of drinking in 14–24 year-old Australians. We interviewed 60 young people in the state of Victoria aged 20–24 about their drinking biographies. At the time of interviewing, the draft guidelines on low-risk drinking were released by the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia, and we asked our participants what they knew about them and if they thought they would affect their drinking patterns. Their responses indicate that pleasure and sociability are central to young people's drinking cultures which is supported by a range of research. However, O’Malley and Valverde claim that pleasure is silenced and/or deployed strategically in neo-liberal governance discourses about drugs and alcohol such as these guidelines which raises questions about the limits of such discourses to affect changes in drinking patterns.
Language eng
Field of Research 160809 Sociology of Education
Socio Economic Objective 920401 Behaviour and Health
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2011, Taylor & Francis
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30036896

Document type: Journal Article
Collection: School of Education
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