Time and Alcohol

Peter J. Howland is a former tabloid journalist by mistake, an anthropologist by training, a sociology lecturer at Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand, by occupation, and a neo-Marxist by analytical and moral compulsion. He has long-standing research interests in wine production, consumption and tourism and their role in the evolving constructions of middle-class identity, distinction, leisure, elective sociality, constructions of place and reflexive individuality; gifting and commodity economies, etc. In 2019, he was appointed as a founding editor of the series Critical Beverage Studies for Routledge UK.

Series Editor Introduction, Acknowledgements, List of Illustration, List of Contributors, Introduction, 1. Alcoholic Times and Temporalities – Labouring Between Nature and Society, 2. Accounting for Lost Time: Alcohol and its After-Effects in English Diary-Keeping (c. 1660 – 1760), 3. Nipping and tippling: How ‘petty but perpetual drinking’ caused moral panic in late Victorian Britain, 4. Wine and the Disruption of Time: The French Revolution, 5. ‘Me time’ or Coping Mechanism? Women, alcohol and gendered modes of ‘time out’, 6. The Two Wine O’Clocks: (Un)Timely Meditations on Gendered Alcohol Consumption, 7. Intergenerational Drinking Histories, Times and Geographies, 8. The Influence of Seasonality on the Beer Brewing Process, 9. Grapevines and Winemakers: Nature Time, Labour Agencies and Commercial Agrarian Temporalities, 10. Making Time with Microbes, 11. Fiesta time: Beer exchange and temporal pressures in the Southern Peruvian Andes, 12. Liquor of Rongmei Naga: Brewing joudui in the village against colonial and post-colonial state, 13. We are When We Drink: Wine, Temporality, and Performativity in the Iranian Diaspora, 14. Time, Body Technique, and Aged Flavour in Producing Puer Tea in the Xishuangbanna Region, China, Index