Drinking Dilemmas: Space, Culture & Identity (CFP, Conference, Cardiff, 12–13 December 2013)

Drinking Dilemmas: Space, Culture & Identity

Keynote Speakers:

 Prof. Gill Valentine (University of Sheffield)

 Dr. Mark Jayne (University of Manchester)

 Prof. Robert Hollands (Newcastle University)

Call for Papers

Despite recent advances, academic studies of alcohol still frequently struggle to reconcile the individual, social and cultural pleasures and benefits of drinking and drunkenness with concerns for public order, health and wellbeing and social policy. Drinking practices are diverse and are spatially and culturally defined. What we drink, how we drink, where we drink, who we drink with and , indeed, when we decide not to drink may all be informed by our identity as constituted through social class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality , age, religion and (dis)ability.

This two day conference will bring together academics and researchers working in issues relating to alcohol and drinking to explore these ‘drinking dilemmas’ from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. We particularly welcome papers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds (including but by no means limited to sociology, history, psychology, law, geography and addiction studies) and from early career and international researchers.

Topics of Interest Include:

Drinking Biographies and Alcohol Across the Life Course

Alcohol, Children and the Family

Drink and National Identity

Addiction, Treatment and Recovery

Alcohol Use Within Subcultures

Public/Private Drinking Spaces

Rural/Urban Drinking Spaces

Drinking, Gender and Sexuality

Alternatives and Abstinence

Drink, Migration and Diaspora

Alcohol , Work and Occupational Identity