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Geographies of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness: a review of progress

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

Gill Valentine

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

Sarah L. Holloway

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

This paper explores geographical contributions to the study of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness. We argue that where alcohol studies have engaged with geographical issues research has been dominated by a case study approach that has undertheorized the relationship between practices and processes relating to alcohol, drinking and drunkenness and the people and places being studied. We then go on to show the ways in which human geographers are approaching alcohol, drinking and drunkenness via complex interpenetrations of political, economic, social, cultural and spatial issues and unpacking connections, similarities, differences and mobilities between supranational, national, regional and local spatial scales. We argue that such an approach represents a conceptually and empirically important contribution to alcohol studies research. The paper concludes, however, that if geographers are to have a central role in shaping future research agendas then they must engage with theoretical issues in a more detailed and sustained manner, particularly in relation to epistemological and ontological impasses that have to date characterized the study of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness.

Key Words: alcohol • alcohol studies • drinking • drunkenness.

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