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‘Sainsbury's is my local’: English alcohol policy, domestic drinking practices and the meaning of home
Author(s) -
Holloway Sarah L,
Jayne Mark,
Valentine Gill
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
transactions of the institute of british geographers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.196
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1475-5661
pISSN - 0020-2754
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2008.00322.x
Subject(s) - ideology , meaning (existential) , government (linguistics) , power (physics) , public policy , order (exchange) , political science , sociology , politics , public administration , political economy , law , business , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , psychotherapist
Drinking in England is an issue of public and policy concern. The Government has focused on the city centre in pursuing its twin policy aims of urban regeneration and public order and health. This paper challenges the silences in such debate by focusing on the domestic drinking practices in two case‐study locations. Drawing on insights from wider geographies of home, the empirical sections of the paper explore domestic drinking as a widespread, socially sanctioned practice, which is shaped through diverse social relations, and the home's connections to other time/spaces. The ideological power of home works to obscure the problems that domestic drinking can sometimes cause.