‘At home’ with alcohol: new insights into young people’s domestic practices in China

Beyond moralising, disciplining and normalising discourses: Re-thinking geographies of alcohol, drinking, drunkenness

“…For example, geographers now draw on diverse critical social constructivist thinking in order to explore: historical and moral geographies of policy, policing, regulation and licensing (Beckingham, 2008(Beckingham, , 2019Kneale, 2012;Kneale and French, 2008;Nicholls and Kneale, 2015); structural and ideological dimensions of the 'alcohol industry' (Herrick, 2011(Herrick, , 2012(Herrick, , 2014(Herrick, , 2016; home, domestic, and relational geographies of public/private lives (Beckingham, 2021;Holloway et al, 2008Holloway et al, , 2009Jayne et al, 2021;Kneale, 2021;Liu and Jayne, 2022); identities and subjectivities including masculinity, femininity, ethnicity, and religion (Fileborn, 2016;Gillen, 2015;Holloway et al, 2009;Waitt et al, 2011;Wilkinson and Wilkinson, 2020). Other important topics include alcohol and tourism (Bell, 2008;Jayne et al, 2012); childhood, family life, and intergenerational relations (Jayne and Valentine, 2016c;Valentine et al, 2010aValentine et al, , 2010bValentine et al, , 2012Valentine et al, , 2013; young people, urban, and rural life (Leyshon, 2005(Leyshon, , 2008Maye et al, 2005;Valentine et al, 2009;Wilkinson, 2018;Wilkinson and Wilkinson, 2020); and 'alcohol-related' violence 'at home' and in public spaces (Brickell, 2008;Sandberg and Tollefsen, 2010;Trell et al, 2014).…”

“…Our paper is predominantly founded on a review of geographical literature in order to stimulate open and critical debate which we hope will make a significant contribution to future philosophical, empirical, and methodological trajectories. However, we augment critical review by drawing on our recent experiences of undertaking research in China (Jayne et al, 2021(Jayne et al, , 2022Liu and Jayne, 2022). Despite historical and contemporary geographies of alcohol, drinking, drunkenness in China markedly contrasting with dominant situated knowledge from Europe and North America, there are also similarities, connectivities, and mobilities too.…”

Towards new knowledge complexes for critical geographies of alcohol, drinking, drunkenness

“…Indeed, our research offers a very different and more complex story of drinking cultures in China across diverse work, domestic, and family space (e.g. Jayne et al, 2022, Liu and Jayne, 2023). Whilst, at best, this oversight can be explained as ineffective literature review, and we admit more focused research is needed to fully explore this specific issue in detail, at worst Sin (2024) highlights how easily uncritical moralising, disciplining, and normalising thinking can prevail.…”