Nightclub
Bouncers, Risk, and the Spectacle of Consumption
Erschienen am 18. März 2008
288 Seiten
978-0-7735-7801-2 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
People go to nightclubs to see and be seen - to view others as aesthetic objects and to present themselves as objects of desire. Rigakos argues that this activity fuses surveillance and aesthetic consumption - it fetishizes bodies and amplifies social capital, producing violence and crises fuelled by alcohol. At closing time, patrons flow out of the insular haze of the nightclub and onto city streets, moving from private spectacle to public nuisance. Bouncers are thus both policing agents in the nighttime economy and the gatekeepers of an urban risk market - a site of circumscribed transgression and consumption that begins at the nightclub door.
Weitere Details
Sprache
Englisch
Dateigröße
4,76 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-7801-2 (9780773578012)
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Buch
03/2008
McGill-Queen's University Press
154,08 €
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Person
George S. Rigakos is associate professor of law, criminology, and political economy at Carleton University, and the author of The New Parapolice: Risk Markets and Commodified Social Control, 2002.
