'Some days I am a lunatic that thinks I can moderate': Amalgamating recovery and neo-liberal discourses within accounts of non-drinking among women active in the 'positive sobriety' community on Instagram in the UK.
'Some days I am a lunatic that thinks I can moderate': Amalgamating recovery and neo-liberal discourses within accounts of non-drinking among women active in the 'positive sobriety' community on Instagram in the UK.
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“有时我是一个自以为可以节制的疯子”：在英国 Instagram 上活跃于“积极清醒”社区的女性不饮酒账户中，将康复和新自由主义话语融合在一起。
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10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103937
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2023
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通讯作者：
Atkinson AM
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Atkinson AM
背景近年来，在英国饮酒的减少和在线“积极”清醒社区的兴起已经被观察到，但同行领导的支持团体，如匿名酗酒者（AA）和控制和责任的新自由主义话语主导公众对（有问题的）酒精使用的理解。本文介绍了一项研究，探讨女性如何活跃在Instagram上的“积极清醒”社区中，并在这些重叠的话语中构建她们的非饮酒身份和与酒精的关系。MethodsSemi-structured interviews（n=15）和在线内容由活跃在Instagram上的积极清醒社区中的女性制作，使用主题分析进行了分析。复制和合并AA的成瘾话语，以及更广泛的新自由主义话语，以定位（酒精）消费，代理，控制和个人责任作为女性身份塑造的定义特征。利用这些话语，对问题饮酒的二元理解，“酗酒者”的身份，以及在恢复过程中达到“谷底”的必要性被拒绝和挑战，但有时会被复制。虽然更广泛的框架问题饮酒，位于一个频谱上的饮酒问题的构建，禁欲从事和促进作为最有效的方式获得控制和责任饮酒的性别方式，并在建立一个真实的自我意识。以及传统复苏和新自由主义话语在女性叙述中的交织存在。在线清醒社区提供了另一种支持空间，并允许清醒和清醒的女性比传统的AA概念化更积极地构建。然而，这些参与者可能会经历紧张局势：（a）需要“讲述”他们完全禁欲的个人故事，同时仍然吸引那些寻求“温和”的人;（B）在一个需要精心策划的自我形象和个人“品牌”的在线平台上创造和制作“真实”清醒自我的压力。进一步的研究应该旨在更多地了解社交媒体在“做到”清醒和不喝酒方面所发挥的作用、不同性别的人如何做到这一点、参与者的交叉经验，以及如何让这些社区更平等地可用。对于那些不认为完全戒酒是必要的人来说，同时仍然吸引那些认为完全戒酒是必要的人。
BackgroundIn recent years, reductions in drinking in the UK and the rise of online ‘positive’ sobriety communities have been observed, yet peer led support groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and neo-liberal discourses of control and responsibility dominate public understandings of (problematic) alcohol use. This paper presents research exploring how women active in the ‘positive sobriety’ community on Instagram position and construct their non-drinking identities and relationships with alcohol within these overlapping discourses.MethodsSemi-structured interviews (n=15) and online content produced by women active in the positive sobriety community on Instagram were analysed using thematic analysis.FindingsWomen challenged, reproduced and amalgamated AA discourses of addiction, and the broader discourses of neo-liberalism, in ways that positioned (alcohol) consumption, agency, control and individual responsibility as defining features of feminine identity making. Drawing on these discourses, binary understandings of problematic drinking, the identity of the ‘alcoholic’, and the need to reach ‘rock bottom’ in the recovery process were rejected and challenged, but at times reproduced. Whilst a broader framing of problematic drinking that situated drinking problems on a spectrum was constructed, abstinence was engaged with and promoted as the most effective way of gaining control and responsibility over drinking in gendered ways, and in establishing an authentic sense of self.ConclusionThis paper contributes to emerging research on online ‘positive’ sobriety communities, their gendered nature, and the intertwined presence of traditional recovery and neo-liberal discourses in women's accounts. Online sober communities offered alternative spaces of support and allowed for sobriety and sober femininities to be framed more positively than within traditional AA conceptualisations. However, those involved may experience tensions around (a) the need to ‘tell’ their personal stories of complete abstinence whilst still appealing to those who seek to ‘moderate’ and (b) the pressure to create and craft an ‘authentic’ sober self on an online platform that demands a carefully curated self-image and personal ‘brand’. Further research should aim to gain more understanding of the role social media plays in “doing” sobriety and non-drinking, how this is done by people of different genders, the intersectional experiences of those participating, and how these communities can be made more equally available and accessible to those who do not consider full abstinence as necessary, whilst still appealing to those that do.
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