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Author Brady, Maggie, author.

Title Teaching 'proper' drinking? : pubs and clubs in Indigenous Australia / Maggie Brady.

Publication Info. Canberra : ANU Press, 2017.
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 320 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Research monograph (Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research) ; no. 39
Research monograph (Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research) ; no. 39.
Contents 1. Learning to drink: the social history of an idea -- 2. The Gothenburg system, monopolies and the community good -- 3. The role of beer canteens and licensed clubs -- 4. The wrecking of the Murrinh Patha Social Club: a case study -- 5. The rise and fall of the Tyeweretye Club: a case study -- 6. Indigenous communities buy hotels -- 7. The Indigenous purchase of the Crossing Inn -- 8. Drinking, Indigenous policy and social enterprise.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-303) and index.
Biography Dr Maggie Brady is an Honorary Associate Professor at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, The Australian National University, where she was formerly an ARC Research Fellow.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Alcohol use.
Aboriginal Australians -- Alcohol use.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Australia -- Attitudes.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages.
Australia.
Alcohol -- Physiological effect.
Alcohol -- Physiological effect.
Alcohol -- Social aspects.
Alcohol -- Social aspects.
Alcohol.
Aboriginal Australians -- Services for.
Aboriginal Australians -- Services for.
Aboriginal Australians.
Indexed Term Australian
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Australian National University Press.
ISBN 9781760461584 (electronic book)
176046158X (electronic book)
9781760461577 (paperback)
1760461571 (paperback)