Intoxication: An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry - Brossura

Tutenges, Sbastien

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ISBN 10: 197883120X ISBN 13: 9781978831209

Casa editrice: Rutgers Univ Pr, 2022

Riassunto

For two decades, Sébastien Tutenges has conducted research in bars, nightclubs, festivals, drug dens, nightlife resorts, and underground dance parties in a quest to answer a fundamental question: Why do people across cultures gather regularly to intoxicate themselves?

Vivid and at times deeply personal, this book offers new insights into a wide variety of intoxicating experiences, from the intimate feeling of connection among concertgoers to the adrenaline-fueled rush of a fight, to the thrill of jumping off a balcony into a swimming pool. Tutenges shows what it means and feels to move beyond the ordinary into altered states in which the transgressive, spectacular, and unexpected take place.

He argues that the primary aim of group intoxication is the religious experience that Émile Durkheim calls collective effervescence, the essence of which is a sense of connecting with other people and being part of a larger whole. This experience is empowering and emboldening and may lead to crime and deviance, but it is at the same time vital to our humanity because it strengthens social bonds and solidarity.

The book fills important gaps in Durkheim’s social theory and contributes to current debates in micro-sociology as well as cultural criminology and cultural sociology. Here, for the first time, readers will discover a detailed account of collective effervescence in contemporary society that includes: an explanation of what collective effervescence is; a description of the conditions that generate collective effervescence; a typology of the varieties of collective effervescence; a discussion of how collective effervescence manifests in the realm of nightlife, politics, sports, and religion; and an analysis of how commercial forces amplify and capitalize on the universal human need for intoxication.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Sébastien Tutenges is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Lund University in Sweden. He is the editor-in-chief of the Nordic Journal of Criminology. His publications include articles in journals such as Addiction, British Journal of Criminology, Social Problems, and Tourist Studies.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Rutgers Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 197883120X
• ISBN 13: 9781978831209
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 159
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile