Life and Strife in the Urban Night

Consumerism, Emotionality and Harm in the Night-time Economy

Owen Hodgkinson, Mark Bushell (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2026
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-4573-8 (ISBN)

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This book offers a vivid, critical exploration of young adults’ experiences of the contemporary night-time economy, drawing on rich ethnographic research from Stoke-on-Trent. Adopting recent conceptual advancements in ultra-realism, critical criminology and psychoanalytic theory, it examines how young people navigate relationships, substance use, violence and consumer culture through their night-time leisure rituals.

Advancing our understanding of social harm, the book also exposes the deeper political-economic forces that shape youth behaviours, identity and the many corrosive subjectivities that have flourished under late neoliberal capitalism. Engaging with timely concerns around mental health, individualism, and the nature of desire, the book provides a powerful theoretical and empirical contribution to contemporary criminology and sociology.

Owen Hodgkinson is a Doctoral Research Student at Staffordshire University. Mark Bushell is Assistant Professor in Criminology and Sociology at Northumbria University.

1. Introduction

2. Stoke: A Potted History

3. Consumerism and its Discontents

4. Love and Other Drugs

5. On Violence

6. Final Thoughts

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.5.2026
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5292-4573-7 / 1529245737
ISBN-13	978-1-5292-4573-8 / 9781529245738
Zustand	Neuware