Young adults and ‘binge’ drinking: A Bakhtinian analysis
Hackley, C. and Hackley, Amy Rungpaka and Bengry-Howell, A. and Griffin, C. and Mistral, W. and Szmigin, I. (2013) Young adults and ‘binge’ drinking: A Bakhtinian analysis. Journal of Marketing Management 29 (7-8), pp. 933-949. ISSN 0267-257X.
Abstract
In this paper, we use Bakhtin's theory of carnival in a literary analysis of young people's accounts of the role of alcohol in their social lives. Bakhtinian themes in the focus-group transcripts included the dialogic character of drinking stories, the focus on parodic grotesquery, ribald and satiric laughter, and the temporary subversion and reversal of social norms and roles in a world turned ‘inside out’. We suggest that our analysis of the UK's drinking ‘culture’ hints at a previously untheorised complexity and force, and points to a deep contradiction between young people's lived experience of alcohol and government policy discourses based on appeals to individual moral responsibility. We conclude that the carnivalesque resonance of drinking is such that the UK's alcohol problem will continue to worsen until the availability and cultural presence of alcohol is subject to stricter controls.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School |
| Depositing User: | Rungpaka Amy Hackley |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Jan 2019 16:28 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:47 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/25863 |
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