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Life and Strife in the Urban Night : Consumerism, Emotionality and Harm in the Night-Time Economy.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hodgkinson, Owen.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (153 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Offering a vivid criminology of young adults' experiences of the night-time economy, this book reveals the deeper political-economic forces shaping youth behaviours, identities and harms under late capitalism.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- One Introduction
- Homeostasis and the quest for non-suffering
- Special liberty and the assumption of harmlessness
- Violence and pseudo-pacification
- Methods and research environments
- Chapter summaries
- Two Stoke: A Potted History
- Early drinking cultures
- Les Trente Glorieuses
- Leisure and recreation
- A downward spiral
- Stoke's current malaise
- Three Consumerism and Its Discontents
- From communal solidarity to hedonistic individualism
- The emotional constitution of consumerism in the night-time economy
- Standing out and fitting in
- Hardened bodies, hardened subjectivities
- The neoliberal emotional economy
- 'I'm better than you'
- Four Love and Other Drugs
- 'Real' friends
- The death of friendships
- Relationships, sex and betrayal
- Illicit drugs
- Five On Violence
- Consuming violence
- Stalking the urban night
- Fighting the shame of defeat
- War for territory
- Vanishing 'codes' of violence
- Six Final Thoughts
- Advancing ultra-realism
- Post-leisure
- Political economy and urban renewal
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-4578-8
- OCLC:
- 1587785073
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