(Re)making smoking

Of packets and practice

Bibliographic Data

ID2391149
AuthorsDenni (0000-0002-1071-0095, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, corresponding author), Simone Denni, Helen Alexiou (Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia)
Year2018
Volume23
Issue4
Pages459-471
Publication date2018-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359183518799537
OpenAlexW2892710617
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited21

Taking as foundational the well-established anthropological idea that material things can be determinative of expectations and practice, the authors advance the notion that packets are constitutive of smoking in the era of smokefree legislation. Adorned with warnings, graphic messaging and particular colouration, they say that packets do not simply respond to the 'problem' of smoking; they are actively involved in remaking it anew, in, with and for the smokefree context, in which smoking is purposefully denormalized. Focusing in the main on the graphic images that 'plain' packets bear, they track and trace this constitutional force via sensory means, attending particularly to a reworking of the role presently accorded to vision in the Australian government's public health 'view' that assumes a stark separation between the cigarette packet and the respondent smoker

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