Teaching 'proper' drinking? : pubs and clubs in Indigenous Australia /

In Teaching 'Proper' Drinking?, the author brings together three fields of scholarship: socio-historical studies of alcohol, Australian Indigenous policy history and social enterprise studies. The case studies in the book offer the first detailed surveys of efforts to teach responsible dri...

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Main Author: Brady, Maggie (Author)
Corporate Authors: JSTOR (Organization), Australian National University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Canberra : ANU Press, 2017.
Series:Research monograph (Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research) ; no. 39.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:In Teaching 'Proper' Drinking?, the author brings together three fields of scholarship: socio-historical studies of alcohol, Australian Indigenous policy history and social enterprise studies. The case studies in the book offer the first detailed surveys of efforts to teach responsible drinking practices to Aboriginal people by installing canteens in remote communities, and of the purchase of public hotels by Indigenous groups in attempts both to control sales of alcohol and to create social enterprises by redistributing profits for the community good. Ethnographies of the hotels are examined through the analytical lens of the Swedish 'Gothenburg' system of municipal hotel ownership. The research reveals that the community governance of such social enterprises is not purely a matter of good administration or compliance with the relevant liquor legislation. Their administration is imbued with the additional challenges posed by political contestation, both within and beyond the communities concerned.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxii, 320 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-303) and index.
ISBN:9781760461584
176046158X