{"id":5417,"date":"2018-03-26T13:17:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T10:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/?p=5417"},"modified":"2022-01-10T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T10:37:00","slug":"konstantinos-gkotsinas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/konstantinos-gkotsinas\/","title":{"rendered":"“A last drink? Alcohol and Anti-alcoholism in Greece (1870-1940)”"},"content":{"rendered":"
Research Proposal<\/span>Conference<\/span>Research Results<\/span>Short Bio<\/span>Publications<\/span><\/div>
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Summary of the Research Proposal<\/h4>\n

The proposed post-doctoral research addresses the diffusion of alcohol and the rise of the concept of alcoholism in the Greek society from the 1870s (a decade marked by the spectacular spread of vine cultivation in Greece, by the development of systematic local spirits\u2019 production, and by an increase in recorded alcohol consumption) to the 1930s, when the anti-alcoholic literature proliferated and the arguments against alcohol crystallized.
\nThis research intends to map the history of alcoholic beverages during a period when they conquered both public space and consumers\u2019 habits; to explore their different and often diverging representations; to analyze the content, the range and the limits of the anti-alcoholic discourse. The multifaceted character of this particular scientific object calls for the adoption of multiple approaches, i.e. of economic history, history of sciences, history of mentalities, history of everyday life, social history, or yet literary history. In order to address the above questions, I will consult a variety of primary sources and archives, without losing sight of recent literature in the field of alcohol and psychoactive substances.
\nThus, through the study of sources and bibliography, the proposed research will analyze the interaction of state mechanisms, actors and natural or environmental conditions in the development of fermented and distilled beverages production; look into daily practices involving alcohol in the Greek society at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century; describe forms of sociability were alcohol was a catalyst; and trace commercial, academic and cultural networks both within and beyond the frontiers of Greece.
\nThe outcomes of the research will be presented during a one-day conference at the University of Crete with the participation of young scholars, and synthesized in an original final paper, while briefer accounts will be published in blogs dedicated to the history of health or to the history of psychoactive substances. In this manner this research will contribute in a thriving and very promising research field with specialized journals, organized institutions (e.g. Alcool and Drugs History Society) and conferences, workshops and symposiums across the world: the study of psychoactive substances. By doing so, the research will inscribe the Greek case in current international historiographic trends.<\/p>\n

This research project was funded by the Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH), with the support of<\/i>
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To view the conference\u2019s program in Greek and English, click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The research results of the program “‘A last drink?’ Alcohol and Anti-alcoholism in Greece (1870-1940)”, by Kostis Gotsinas
\nhave been published in Greek by RCH Digital Library<\/a>, as part of the journal PIXELS@humanities<\/a><\/strong>,
\nin the volume\u00a0Research Results<\/span>\u00a02018: <\/span>epistemology \u2013 space \u2013 health \u2013 history<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kostis Gotsinas<\/strong> is a post-doctoral researcher at the History and Archeology Department of the University of Crete. He has studied History at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and at the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where he accomplished his PhD dissertation on drug addiction in Interwar Greece. During the spring semester of the academic year 2016-2017 he taught \u201cContemporary Greek History (1880-1930)\u201d at the History, Archeology and Social Anthropology Department of the University of Thessaly, and he has collaborated with the projects \u00abOpen Jerusalem – Opening Jerusalem Archives: for a connected history of \u2018Citadinit\u00e9\u2019 in the Holy City (1840-1940)\u00bb and \u00abEntre global et local – L\u2019histoire civile d\u2019une arm\u00e9e oubli\u00e9e: l\u2019arm\u00e9e d\u2019Orient, 1915-1919\u00bb. His research interests comprise the history of psychoactive substances, state formation and public health, deviant behaviors and politics of control, as well as social and cultural history. Currently he is conducting the research \u201cA last drink? Alcohol and antialcoholism in Greece (1870-1940)\u201d with the support of the Research Center for the Humanities. He is also participating in the team research entitled \u201cFor a history of sexuality in the Greek 20th<\/sup> century: Practices, discourses, and identities\u201d.<\/p>\n

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