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Bureaucracy, case geography and the governance of the inebriate in Scotland (1898–1918)

Beckingham, David

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This article considers the late-Victorian and Edwardian legislative treatment of problem drunkenness in Scotland under the 1898 Inebriates Act. It examines the uneven enactment of the law, by geography and gender, and exposes how mundane questions of bureaucracy, of finance and jurisdiction, intersected with the institutional management of people convicted under it. I present an analytical framework of case geography to examine the ways in which bureaucratic and not simply medical interventions came together to shape people's unfolding futures. Their removal to – and oftentimes between – institutions produced and did not simply resolve bureaucratic challenges. In conclusion I call for a greater awareness of the ways in which such mobile lives shaped policy: they tested the geographical imagination of government and with it the viability of this inebriate system.

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Beckingham, D. (2019). Bureaucracy, case geography and the governance of the inebriate in Scotland (1898–1918). Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(8), 1434-1451. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654419833024

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 28, 2019
Online Publication Date Mar 12, 2019
Publication Date Mar 12, 2019
Deposit Date Feb 5, 2019
Publicly Available Date Feb 5, 2019
Journal Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
Print ISSN 2399-6544
Electronic ISSN 2399-6552
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 37
Issue 8
Pages 1434-1451
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654419833024
Keywords inebriety; bureaucracy; state; Scotland; case geography
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1519729
Publisher URL https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2399654419833024
Contract Date Feb 5, 2019

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