Overview
- Using new archival research and historical GIS techniques to book map the rise and influence of local level controls on alcohol in Victoria
- Offers a new perspective on place-based alcohol controls by arguing that the temperance movement of the late 19th and early 20th century used nascent planning laws to legitimize local popular political power, and the control not only of alcohol but of land use and disorder more broadly
- Identifies the hangovers of temperance and local option laws: legacies for the emergence of land use zoning, and for alcohol and land use controls in Victoria today
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The book is based on a case study of temperance-era liquor licensing changes in Victoria, their convergence with early planning, and their continuities. Examples are given of contemporary Australian planning debates with historical roots in the temperance era – live music venues, bottle shops, gaming machines, fast food restaurants. Dry Zones uses new archival research and maps; and includes examples from family histories in Harcourt and Barkers Creek, a district with a temperance reputation and which closed all its hotels during the temperance era.
Suggesting ‘wowsers’ are not so easily relegated to history books, Taylor reflects on tensions around individual and local rights, localism and centralism, direct democracy, and domestic violence, that continue to be re-enacted. Dry Zones visits a forgotten by-way of licensing history, showing the early 21st century is a useful time to reflect on this history as while some temperance-era controls are being scaled back, similar controls are being put forward for much the same reasons.
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Book Title: Dry Zones
Book Subtitle: Planning and the Hangovers of Liquor Licensing History
Authors: Elizabeth Jean Taylor
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2787-2
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-2786-5Published: 20 October 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-2787-2Published: 10 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 162
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Urban Studies/Sociology, Australasian History