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'I don't really care about what someone else's studied' : Drinking guidelines and the government of pleasure
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posted on 2008-01-01, 00:00 authored by Lyn HarrisonThis paper examines data from a Drinkwise Australia funded research project that investigated the cultural drivers of drinking in 14-24 year-old Australians. The research included two studies. In one we conducted interviews and focus groups with administrators and young people in a range of sporting clubs and in the other we interviewed 60 young people aged 20-24 about their drinking biographies. The drinking biographies study is the focus of this paper. At the time of interviewing the draft guidelines on low-risk drinking were released by the NH&MRC and we asked our participants what they knew about them and if they would affect their drinking patterns. The responses to these questions are examined in light of O’Malley and Valverde’s claim that pleasure is silenced and/or deployed strategically in liberal governance discourses about drugs and alcohol (2004: 25). This is despite the fact that research indicates that pleasure is an important motivation for drinking.
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Australian Sociological Association. Conference (2008 : Melbourne, Vic.)Pagination
1 - 14Publisher
TASALocation
University of Melbourne, VictoriaPlace of publication
Melbourne, Vic.Start date
2008-12-02End date
2008-12-05ISBN-13
9780734039842Language
engPublication classification
E1 Full written paper - refereedCopyright notice
2008, TASAEditor/Contributor(s)
T Majoribanks, J Barraket, J Chang, A Dawson, M Guillemin, M Henry-Waring, A Kenyon, R Kokanovic, J Lewis, D Lusher, D Nolan, P Pyett, R Robins, D Warr, J WynTitle of proceedings
TASA 2008 : Re-imagining sociology : the annual conference of the Australian Sociological Association 2008, 2-5 December 2008, The University of MelbourneUsage metrics
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