Smokefree
A Social, Moral and Political Atmosphere
Seiten
2016
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-6919-6 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-6919-6 (ISBN)
Although tobacco is a legal substance, many governments around the world have introduced legislation to restrict smoking and access to tobacco products. Smokefree critically examines these changes, from the increasing numbers of places being designated as smokefree to changes in cigarette packaging and the portrayal of smoking in popular culture.
Although tobacco is a legal substance, many governments around the world have introduced legislation to restrict smoking and access to tobacco products. Smokefree critically examines these changes, from the increasing numbers of places being designated as ‘smokefree’ to changes in cigarette packaging and the portrayal of smoking in popular culture. Unlike existing texts, this book neither advances a public health agenda nor condemns the erosion of individual rights. Instead, Simone Dennis takes a classical anthropological approach to present the first agenda-free, full-length study of smoking. Observing and analysing smoking practices and environments, she investigates how the social, moral, political and legal atmosphere of ‘smokefree’ came into being and examines the ideas about smoke, air, the senses, space, and time which underlie it. Looking at the impact on public space and individuals, she reveals broader findings about the relationship between the state, agents, and what is seen to constitute ‘the public’. Enriched with ethnographic vignettes from the author’s ten years of fieldwork in Australia, Smokefree is a challenging, important book which demands to be read and discussed by anyone with an interest in anthropology, sociology, political science, human geography, and public health.
Although tobacco is a legal substance, many governments around the world have introduced legislation to restrict smoking and access to tobacco products. Smokefree critically examines these changes, from the increasing numbers of places being designated as ‘smokefree’ to changes in cigarette packaging and the portrayal of smoking in popular culture. Unlike existing texts, this book neither advances a public health agenda nor condemns the erosion of individual rights. Instead, Simone Dennis takes a classical anthropological approach to present the first agenda-free, full-length study of smoking. Observing and analysing smoking practices and environments, she investigates how the social, moral, political and legal atmosphere of ‘smokefree’ came into being and examines the ideas about smoke, air, the senses, space, and time which underlie it. Looking at the impact on public space and individuals, she reveals broader findings about the relationship between the state, agents, and what is seen to constitute ‘the public’. Enriched with ethnographic vignettes from the author’s ten years of fieldwork in Australia, Smokefree is a challenging, important book which demands to be read and discussed by anyone with an interest in anthropology, sociology, political science, human geography, and public health.
Simone Dennis is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Orienting Notes: Ethnographic Vignettes from a Fascinating AtmosphereIntroduction: There's Something in the AirPart I1. The Difference Between Tobacco and Tomatoes2. Oppositionary Pairings and Ruinous Smoke3. Re-imagining the SmokerPart II4. Breathing in Smoke(free), Firsthand5. Miasmatic Exhalation: Breathing Out (Secondhand) Smoke6. Abject Third-hand Smoke7. Fourth-hand Smoke: Going to Flavour CountryConclusionReferencesIndex
| Sprache | englisch |
|---|---|
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 386 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker) | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4725-6919-9 / 1472569199 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4725-6919-6 / 9781472569196 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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