Drinking Bodies: Alcohol, Embodiment & Social Difference

This one day conference will bring together academics and researchers working on issues related to alcohol, embodiment and social difference from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives. We welcome papers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including but not limited to sociology, history, geography and addiction studies, and from PhD students and early career researchers.

Topics of interest include:

• The embodied experience, management and regulation of drinking across diverse forms of social difference (e.g. ethnicity, age, gender, class).
• The representation of intoxication and drunken or addicted bodies in the news media and in popular culture.
• Methodological challenges involved in researching the embodied, sensory nature of drinking.
• The embodied nature of addiction, treatment and recovery.