Sandra J Maclean
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 386938 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sandra J Maclean |
| NOMBRES | Sandra J |
| APELLIDO | Maclean |
| FIRMA | MACLEAN S J |
| AFILIACIONES | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8329-0722 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 79 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 101 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 78 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Climate change necessitates a concerted and coordinated response from the alcohol and other drugs sector
Climate change is increasingly affecting all areas of our lives, with direct and indirect impacts on people’s health, wellbeing, livelihoods and systems of support (Intergovernmental Panel on Clima
Alcohol Use Associated With Gambling Harm in a Population Representative Australian Sample
Alcohol-Related Intimate Partner Harm in Australia
Living with the consequences of an intimate partner's drinking
Heavy drinking is a key factor linked to intimate partner violence (IPV) and related harms. The study aims to examine how intimate partners of heavy drinkers, predominantly women, understand and navigate these experiences and to categorise the associated harmful behaviours and impacts. Using semi-structured interview data collected in 2023 as part of the Alcohol’s Harm to Others (AHTO) qualitative study, we analysed interviews with a sub-sample o…
Hegemonic femininity, motherhood, and alcohol in Australia
Ideals around femininity influence women's health behaviours, particularly for mothers facing hegemonic and gender normative pressures. This relationship becomes more complex when it comes to alcohol, where commercial, moral, health and pleasure-based discourses intersect. We examine how alcohol use is negotiated by employed mothers in the context of intensive motherhood, hegemonic femininity, neoliberal and postfeminist ideals. Drawing on interv…
Social Relationships and Gender-Diverse Young People's Capacities to Manage Problematic Substance Use
Trans and gender-diverse young people seek help from alcohol and drug services at higher rates than their cisgender peers. However, little is known about the factors that influence their capacities to manage problematic substance use. The aim of this study was to explore social relationships as a potential factor shaping these capacities. In the qualitative study reported here, 12 interviews were conducted with five young people aged 19 to 21 yea…
Gender Differences in Alcohol Research
Gender is a social and cultural construct that shapes human experience, and is one of the most significant social determinants of health [1]. Gendered drinking practices are an example of this. Research across different historical periods and cultural contexts has consistently shown that women are more likely to abstain from alcohol consumption [2, 3], while men generally consume more alcohol [3] and are more likely to engage in heavy episodic dr…
‘Moderation Is the Holy Grail’
A Hope for Hope
Our perspective paper focuses on the sociology of hope and is a call to action for health promotion policy makers to create the conditions for hopefulness in alcohol reduction policy, advocacy and programs for/with midlife women. Alcohol is a major risk factor for breast cancer, and high proportions of midlife women in most high-income countries drink at "risky" levels, increasing the chances of breast cancer (due to both age and alcohol consumpt…
Examining gender in alcohol research
Volatile substances are an amorphous category, making it hard to build a comprehensive body of research
Social Work and Aboriginal Australians
The social work profession is rightly criticised for past and present wrongdoing against Aboriginal Australians. Non-Aboriginal social workers have significant contact with Aboriginal peoples but despite their guidance, social workers can struggle to engage effectively. Whilst this work is complex, little is known about the challenges non-Aboriginal social workers encounter, and how they might be navigated better. To address this gap, this articl…
Aboriginal Australians’ Perceptions of Non-Aboriginal Social Workers
Learning how to live well
understanding of substance use as a practice that emerges from the social conditions of young people's lives
Alcohol’s contribution to climate change and other environmental degradation
Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity. The production, distribution and consumption of many fast-moving consumer goods contribute substantially to climate change, principally through releasing greenhouse gas emissions. Here we consider just some of the ways that alcohol—already a key contributor to an array of health, social and economic burdens—exacerbates environmental harms and climate change. We explore current ev…
Risk and restraint—The key to understanding the decreasing use of alcohol for young people in high income countries
How does climate change impact people who use alcohol and other drugs? A scoping review of peer reviewed literature
Impacts of climate change for people who use substances have not been classified. • Studies suggest increased substance use is likely, but will not occur consistently. • Other effects include service disruption, unplanned withdrawal and heat vulnerability. • Changed drug markets and mental health consequences will also impact users. • Few studies address impacts in developing countries or of long-term climatic shifts. The world has experienced de…
Alcohol and other drug continuing care for young people
‘Continuing care’ refers to the provision of co-ordinated care and support overtime. Currently, little is known about continuing care programs for young people who complete alcohol and other drug treatment. This paper analyses data from an interview-based study that aimed to identify the generative mechanisms underpinning an innovative continuing care program for young people. Researchers recruited 11 current and former program clients aged 17 to…
Opportunities and limits
Young people in residential alcohol and other drug (AOD) services build meaningful relationships with workers during their stays. In this paper we use an ethics of care framework to explore what young people said about care, how it was delivered and what they valued about it. Drawing on three waves of longitudinal interviews conducted with 38 young people over 12 months, we discuss our findings according to two overarching themes – opportunities …
Drinking alcohol at home feels different from drinking in public places
This paper shows how drinking in one's own home affords different affective experiences to drinking in public settings such as bars, pubs and restaurants. A thematic analysis of interviews with 40 Australians aged 30-65 identified three main variations in alcohol-associated feelings, sensations and urges. Alcohol was used at home to decelerate, but in contrast, people were enlivened when drinking in public venues. Drinking in public generated a s…
Young people returning to alcohol and other drug services as incremental treatment
Young people who attend intensive alcohol and other drug (AoD) treatment commonly do so more than once. This paper aims to understand precipitators, enablers and barriers to young people's re-engagement in programs. Data come from a longitudinal qualitative study involving three waves of interviews with Australian young people recruited while attending intensive AoD programs (n = 38 at wave 1). We found that young people's ambitions for what they…
Drinking at home
Despite being the place where the majority of alcohol in many countries is consumed (e.g., [1]), drinking in the home does not receive as much public and research attention as drinking in public settings. As we have argued previously [2, 3], attention given to home drinking by researchers and policymakers should be proportionate to its substantial contribution to alcohol's harms. The recent rise in availability and popularity of alcohol home deli…
Home alone
Per cent of the time when I have had a drink in my hand I’m on my phone as well’
Greater use of communication technologies among young people, including mobile phones, social media and communication apps, has coincided with declines in youth alcohol use in many high-income countries. However, little research has unpacked how drinking as a practice within interconnected routines and interactions may be changing alongside these technologies. Drawing on qualitative interviews about drinking with young people aged 16–23 across th…
How do people drink alcohol at a low-risk level
Reducing the risks associated with drinking is an ongoing public health goal. Approximately two-fifths of Australian adults consume alcohol within low-risk guidelines, yet little is known about their drinking patterns or practices. In this paper, we use social practice theory to consider low-risk drinking at home as a routinised social practice with material, meaning and competence dimensions. We analysed open-text survey responses from 252 Austr…
Microbes, Mad Cows and Militaries
The 'securitization' of health has generated considerable debate. In public health, the debate focuses mainly on health effects. Although securitization may refocus attention and resources toward certain health issues, it may focus undue attention on a few issues or on the military aspects of issues to the detriment of a broad range of health issues and their human rights aspects. In international relations, the concern is the effect on security …
Alcohol and the Constitution of Friendship for Young Adults
Friendship, sociologists suggest, is defined by institutionalized rules to a lesser degree than other important relationships. Hence it must be sustained through specific friendship-making practices. Social science literature tends to conceptualize friendship as enhancing the pleasures of alcohol use rather than as central to friendship production. This article examines alcohol as a technology in contemporary young adults' friendship-making. Inte…
Mugabe at war
This paper employs a 'political economy of conflict' approach to explore the recent deterioration in the governance of Zimbabwe. It argues that this analytical approach, which has been applied by scholars such as William Reno to highly dysfunctional and/or collapsed states like Liberia and Sierra Leone, is appropriate for understanding the current actions of the Zimbabwean government as well, and especially their relation to the military's unpopu…
I just wanted a change, a positive change
In this article, we investigate young people's involvement with residential alcohol and other drug (AOD) services as part of their broader engagement with hope. This study draws on qualitative interviews conducted with 20 young people aged 17-23 from Victoria, Australia, who were either in, or had recently left, residential AOD services. Interviews explored their experiences with AOD services and included questions about their hopes for the futur…
No one associates alcohol with being in good health
Young people's drinking has declined markedly in Australia over the past 15 years, and this may be linked to changing norms and values around health. We take the view that healthism-a discourse that privileges good health and renders people personally responsible for managing health-has become pervasive, creating new pressures influencing young people's alcohol practices. Through interviews with 50 young light drinkers and abstainers, we explored…
Affordances of home drinking in accounts from light and heavy drinkers
I Just Drink for That Tipsy Stage”
Many young adults aim for a state of tipsiness, where control is not abandoned when they drink alcohol; however, this level of intoxication is very difficult to get right. Interviews conducted with 60 drinkers aged 18–24 years in Melbourne, Australia, indicate that few counted standard drinks and most spoke of attending to bodily signs that they had had enough and should not drink more. This strategy was ineffective for a small proportion of inte…
Parents' management of alcohol in the context of discourses of 'competent' parenting
How parents manage potential tensions between normative discourses of 'competent parenting' and their desires to consume alcohol has received little attention. In this article, we explore the elements that encourage or constrain parents' drinking and investigate how parents consider and manage their alcohol use in the context of multiple social roles with sometimes conflicting demands and expectations around 'competent parenting'. Our analysis dr…
Reflexive habitus and the new obligation of choice
This article examines how young people construct drinking and non-drinking as a choice by drawing on the concept of reflexive habitus – how individuals in contemporary society habitually negotiate choices around consumption, lifestyle and identity. We explore accounts of non-drinking choices through semi-structured interviews with 50 young people aged 16–19 from Melbourne, Australia, who either abstained from alcohol or drank minimally. Participa…
Risk profiles for early adolescents who regularly use alcohol and other drugs compared with older youth
This mixed method article identifies how risk factors differ across the age range serviced by Australian youth alcohol and other drug (AOD) agencies. It is intended to inform the development of interventions targeting early adolescents aged 13–15 years. Focusing on survey variables concerning substance choice and identified risk factors for problematic AOD, we compare the characteristics of early adolescents against older youth aged 16–19 and 20–…
It Might Be a Scummy-Arsed Drug but it's a Sick Buzz”
Arguing that the role of pleasure in young people's decisions to use inhalants has been underexplored, this paper provides a typology for the kinds of pleasurable experience young people report from chroming (an Australian term for inhalant use involving aerosol paints). The paper draws on in-depth interviews with young people with experience of chroming and with expert workers in Melbourne, Australia. Seven categories of pleasurable experience r…
I've had a pretty tough life but that's not why I do this’
The provision of alcohol and other drug (AOD) programmes in Australia targeting a broad age range of young people may inadvertently obscure the particular service needs of early teenagers. In this study, we describe four main accounts of substance use identified through interviews with 20 AOD service-engaged participants in Victoria, aged from 13 to 15 years. These were: that their substance use is purposeful; that it is generally controlled; tha…
The Horn of Africa as Common Homeland
The Horn of Africa as Common Homeland: The State and Self-Determination in the Era of Heightened Globalization , Leenco Lata, Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004, pp. xi, 219. The author of this book describes himself as a political activist who earned his credentials to write about self-determination in the Horn of Africa largely through his experiences in helping to form the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) in Ethiopia in the 1970s. He…
Young people returning to alcohol and other drug services as incremental treatment
Young people who attend intensive alcohol and other drug (AoD) treatment commonly do so more than once. This paper aims to understand precipitators, enablers and barriers to young people's re-engagement in programs. Data come from a longitudinal qualitative study involving three waves of interviews with Australian young people recruited while attending intensive AoD programs (n = 38 at wave 1). We found that young people's ambitions for what they…
No Time for a 'Time Out'? Managing Time around (Non)Drinking
Young people's drinking represents a nexus between time, temporalities and social practices. While drinking and intoxication have previously been considered a way to achieve a youthful sense of 'time out', young people's drinking is declining in Australia and other high-income countries, suggesting alcohol's centrality in young people's leisure time has diminished. Drawing on interviews with light and non-drinker teenagers from Melbourne, Austral…
Global Selves
Sociologists have observed that young people increasingly draw on global as well as local images in their constructions of individual selfhood. This article provides a narrative analysis of stories of inhalant use-induced hallucination, drawn from interviews conducted with young people in Melbourne, Australia. Young people's stories of the hallucinations they experience while using inhalants frequently reference the narratives, images and ontolog…
Peacebuilding and the New Regionalism in southern Africa
This paper investigates the complexities of establishing sustainable peacebuilding strategies in southern Africa within 'new' security/'new' regionalism contexts. Building peace requires initiatives based upon longer-term developmental, political, economic and social objectives. If peacebuilding is to fulfil its potential for the advancement of 'human' security in Southern Africa, these criteria will best be met through regional solutions. Yet, t…
Aboriginal Australians’ Perceptions of Non-Aboriginal Social Workers
Learning how to live well
understanding of substance use as a practice that emerges from the social conditions of young people's lives
Drinking alcohol at home feels different from drinking in public places
This paper shows how drinking in one's own home affords different affective experiences to drinking in public settings such as bars, pubs and restaurants. A thematic analysis of interviews with 40 Australians aged 30-65 identified three main variations in alcohol-associated feelings, sensations and urges. Alcohol was used at home to decelerate, but in contrast, people were enlivened when drinking in public venues. Drinking in public generated a s…
How do people drink alcohol at a low-risk level
Reducing the risks associated with drinking is an ongoing public health goal. Approximately two-fifths of Australian adults consume alcohol within low-risk guidelines, yet little is known about their drinking patterns or practices. In this paper, we use social practice theory to consider low-risk drinking at home as a routinised social practice with material, meaning and competence dimensions. We analysed open-text survey responses from 252 Austr…
Bingo, gender and the moral order of the household
Feminist researchers have argued for a focus on ‘everyday gambling’ and domestic spaces as sites of women’s leisure. In this article, we analyse how culture, class and gender shape the consumer practices of migrant women from Pacific Islands countries (Cook Islands and Tonga) who play bingo in regional Australia. This intersectional approach examines the effects of bingo in the everyday lives of these women. We show how migrant women gamblers hav…
Restricting alcohol outlet density through cumulative impact provisions in planning law
Patterns of family conflict and their impact on substance use and psychosocial outcomes in a sample of young people in treatment
The influence of family environment on adolescent substance use is well established, but little is known about its impact on outcomes for young people in treatment for substance use disorders. This study aimed to investigate the impact of family conflict and its resolution on substance use and measures of well-being among adolescents in treatment. Eighty young people (aged 16–21 years) were recruited from youth-specific alcohol and drug community…
A ‘New Scramble for Africa’
At population levels, health outcomes are determined more by social conditions than by either biology or technological interventions. Therefore, entrenched and increasing inequalities associated with global transformations in political economy are among the most significant causal factors for so-called ‘global health’ problems that disproportionately afflict sub-Saharan Africans. Growing attention is being paid to the social causes of ill health,…
Civil society and political economy in contemporary Africa
Structural adjustment and the response of civil society in Bangladesh and Zimbabwe
The Effects of Structural Adjustment on Civil Society in Zimbabwe
This paper examines the effects of structural adjustment on social programmes and conditions in Zimbabwe. It argues that efforts by external aid agencies such as the Canadian International Development Agency to reduce the negative consequences of adjustment are unlikely to be successful because current policies tend to support economistic neoliberal ideology rather than human resource development
Peacebuilding and the New Regionalism in southern Africa
This paper investigates the complexities of establishing sustainable peacebuilding strategies in southern Africa within 'new' security/'new' regionalism contexts. Building peace requires initiatives based upon longer-term developmental, political, economic and social objectives. If peacebuilding is to fulfil its potential for the advancement of 'human' security in Southern Africa, these criteria will best be met through regional solutions. Yet, t…
Public investment in private problems
This paper examines findings from the Legal Aid Board Research Unit's Case Profiling Study in the light of the current reform programmes for both legal aid and family law. The findings relate to over 650 legally aided family cases including divorce, separation, ancillary relief and Children Act 1989 applications. The main aim of the study was to gain a better understanding of what is currently funded by the legal aid fund. Costs have been related…
Mugabe at war
This paper employs a 'political economy of conflict' approach to explore the recent deterioration in the governance of Zimbabwe. It argues that this analytical approach, which has been applied by scholars such as William Reno to highly dysfunctional and/or collapsed states like Liberia and Sierra Leone, is appropriate for understanding the current actions of the Zimbabwean government as well, and especially their relation to the military's unpopu…
Governance for reconstruction in Africa
This article seeks to advance analyses and responses to conflict prevention and reconstruction in Africa that go beyond state-centric perspectives to include a range of non-state players. Drawing on examples from both Uganda and Canada, it focuses on the activities of NGOs that have 'partnered' with state-based actors in various peacekeeping and peace-building operations as well as on the increasingly important role played by think-tanks. The lat…
Human Security as “Freedom from Want”
It is frequently assumed that people’s health is determined primarily by their access to technically-based disease treatment, the standard of which is decided by national health policies that allocate health services. However, evidence suggests that population health is determined more by social status and gradients than by access to clinical care. Moreover, in the present era, there is concern that economic globalisation is exacerbating inequiti…
It Might Be a Scummy-Arsed Drug but it's a Sick Buzz”
Arguing that the role of pleasure in young people's decisions to use inhalants has been underexplored, this paper provides a typology for the kinds of pleasurable experience young people report from chroming (an Australian term for inhalant use involving aerosol paints). The paper draws on in-depth interviews with young people with experience of chroming and with expert workers in Melbourne, Australia. Seven categories of pleasurable experience r…
The Horn of Africa as Common Homeland
The Horn of Africa as Common Homeland: The State and Self-Determination in the Era of Heightened Globalization , Leenco Lata, Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004, pp. xi, 219. The author of this book describes himself as a political activist who earned his credentials to write about self-determination in the Horn of Africa largely through his experiences in helping to form the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) in Ethiopia in the 1970s. He…
Global Selves
Sociologists have observed that young people increasingly draw on global as well as local images in their constructions of individual selfhood. This article provides a narrative analysis of stories of inhalant use-induced hallucination, drawn from interviews conducted with young people in Melbourne, Australia. Young people's stories of the hallucinations they experience while using inhalants frequently reference the narratives, images and ontolog…
Volatile bodies
Microbes, Mad Cows and Militaries
The 'securitization' of health has generated considerable debate. In public health, the debate focuses mainly on health effects. Although securitization may refocus attention and resources toward certain health issues, it may focus undue attention on a few issues or on the military aspects of issues to the detriment of a broad range of health issues and their human rights aspects. In international relations, the concern is the effect on security …
A ‘New Scramble for Africa’
At population levels, health outcomes are determined more by social conditions than by either biology or technological interventions. Therefore, entrenched and increasing inequalities associated with global transformations in political economy are among the most significant causal factors for so-called ‘global health’ problems that disproportionately afflict sub-Saharan Africans. Growing attention is being paid to the social causes of ill health,…
Pathways among Human Security, Gender, and HIV/Aids in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2010). Pathways among Human Security, Gender, and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 44, Gender, HIV/AIDS, and Human Security in Africa, pp. 457-478
I've had a pretty tough life but that's not why I do this’
The provision of alcohol and other drug (AOD) programmes in Australia targeting a broad age range of young people may inadvertently obscure the particular service needs of early teenagers. In this study, we describe four main accounts of substance use identified through interviews with 20 AOD service-engaged participants in Victoria, aged from 13 to 15 years. These were: that their substance use is purposeful; that it is generally controlled; tha…
Risk profiles for early adolescents who regularly use alcohol and other drugs compared with older youth
This mixed method article identifies how risk factors differ across the age range serviced by Australian youth alcohol and other drug (AOD) agencies. It is intended to inform the development of interventions targeting early adolescents aged 13–15 years. Focusing on survey variables concerning substance choice and identified risk factors for problematic AOD, we compare the characteristics of early adolescents against older youth aged 16–19 and 20–…
Patterns of family conflict and their impact on substance use and psychosocial outcomes in a sample of young people in treatment
The influence of family environment on adolescent substance use is well established, but little is known about its impact on outcomes for young people in treatment for substance use disorders. This study aimed to investigate the impact of family conflict and its resolution on substance use and measures of well-being among adolescents in treatment. Eighty young people (aged 16–21 years) were recruited from youth-specific alcohol and drug community…
Hyped up’
I Just Drink for That Tipsy Stage”
Many young adults aim for a state of tipsiness, where control is not abandoned when they drink alcohol; however, this level of intoxication is very difficult to get right. Interviews conducted with 60 drinkers aged 18–24 years in Melbourne, Australia, indicate that few counted standard drinks and most spoke of attending to bodily signs that they had had enough and should not drink more. This strategy was ineffective for a small proportion of inte…
Using Realist Synthesis to Develop an Evidence Base from an Identified Data Set on Enablers and Barriers for Alcohol and Drug Program Implementation
The purpose of this paper is to show how “realist synthesis” methodology (Pawson, 2002) was adapted to review a large sample of community based projects addressing alcohol and drug use problems. Our study drew on a highly varied sample of 127 projects receiving funding from a national non-government organisation in Australia between 2002 and 2008. Open and pattern coding led to the identification of 10 barrier and nine enabler mechanisms influenc…
Hello Sunday Morning
Alcohol and the Constitution of Friendship for Young Adults
Friendship, sociologists suggest, is defined by institutionalized rules to a lesser degree than other important relationships. Hence it must be sustained through specific friendship-making practices. Social science literature tends to conceptualize friendship as enhancing the pleasures of alcohol use rather than as central to friendship production. This article examines alcohol as a technology in contemporary young adults' friendship-making. Inte…
Crises of Governance in Asia and Africa
Introduction - pluralisms and the changing global economy - ethnicities in crises of governance in Asia and Africa, Fahimul Quadir, Sandra J. MacLean and Timothy M. Shaw. Part 1 Governance and economy: globalization, capital and governance in a newly industrializing plural society - Malaysia during the 1990s, Johan Saravanamuttu globalization, industrialization and crisis - the coming of age of Malaysian women workers?, Maznah Mohamad, Cecilia Ng…
Middle-aged same-sex attracted women and the social practice of drinking
As a group, middle-aged same-sex attracted women (SSAW) appear to consume more alcohol than exclusively heterosexual women in the same age range; however, few studies document their collective drinking practices or identify opportunities to reduce associated harms. Online surveys which included open-ended questions were completed by a self-selected sample of SSAW (N = 134) aged 36–51, recruited in Victoria, Australia. We identify 12 sub-elements …
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