Abstract
The main focus on this thesis is how the streamlining of society went hand in hand with the alcohol policy in Norway during the interwar period. The framework for this thesis has been a mixture of cultural history and the Foucauldian theory of Governmentality and Biopolitics. The context for this thesis is that Norway had experimented with a partial-Prohibition which outlawed fortified wine and distilled spirits between 1916 and 1927. Excessive use of alcohol was raised as a socio-political and medical question which continued into post-prohibition throughout the interwar period. The Wine Monopoly and medical experts became the two key instruments used by the Government in efforts to streamline the alcohol consumption. It became two powerful institutions that helped shape and stabilise the social order in a rapidly developing nation, influenced by social anxieties caused by distilled spirits, alongside the streamlining process which gave the Government power to regulate the human body through a social construction of alcoholism.