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Drunk and Disorderly: Alcohol, Urban Life and Public Space

Mark Jayne

Geography, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK, mark.jayne{at}manchester.ac.uk

Sarah L. Holloway

Department of Geography, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK

Gill Valentine

School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS7 9TJ, UK

This paper shows that, despite receiving significant attention, the relationship between alcohol, drunkenness and public space has been undertheorized. We show that where drinking has been considered it has generally been as a peripheral concern of political-economy accounts that have sought to conceptualize the development of the modern city, or more recently the impact of global economic restructuring on urban life and public space. Moreover, such work has posited the relationship between drinking and the political, economic, social, cultural and spatial practices and processes bound up with, for example, social control in modern city or with contemporary gentrification, corporatization, fragmentation and regulation of the night-time economy, public space and revanchist urban policy in very general terms. While drawing on evidence from around the world, this paper focuses on the UK and highlights the need for a research agenda underpinned by a more specific consideration of urban drinking. We suggest that such a project must seek to unpack the connections and differences between supranational, national, regional and local drinking practices and related issues, and in particular pursue a more nuanced understanding of the social relations and cultural practices associated with the emergence of particular kinds of urban drinking spaces.

Key Words: alcohol • consumption • public space • urban life

Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 30, No. 4, 451-468 (2006)
DOI: 10.1191/0309132506ph618oa
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