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| Author | : Karen Lumsden |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2013-02-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 113618435X |
On the public roads boy racers are a foreboding presence, viewed with suspicion and derision by the ‘respectable’ motorist. The problem of the young (male) driver is one which has plagued authorities and governments due to youths’ acclaimed propensity to engage in deviant and dangerous driving behaviours. Boy Racer Culture sheds light on the boy racer phenomenon through ethnographic research with the notorious ‘Bouley Basher’ culture in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland, and the moral panic on the part of outside groups including the local community, police, politicians and media. This book examines the creation of masculine and feminine identities in a traditionally male-dominated subculture through car-related rituals such as ‘modding’, subcultural media and events, and the quest for celebrity status via public performances. Boy Racer Culture challenges common misconceptions surrounding the boy racer, the ‘problematic’ young (male) motorist and the car modifier. It will be essential reading for an international audience including sociologists and criminologists, particularly those with an interest in youth culture, subcultures, moral panics, car culture, anti-social behaviour, and the governance and policing of the roads.
| Author | : Karen Lumsden |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 676 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Automobile drivers |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Karen Lumsden |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Ethnology |
| ISBN | : 9781473946583 |
The city of Aberdeen, Scotland, formed the setting for Karen Lumsden's doctoral study into boy racer culture and the societal reaction to the drivers on the part of the community, police, media, politicians and local authority, between 2005 and 2008. The research shed light on the hitherto unexplored world of boy racers.
| Author | : Kevin S. Court |
| Publisher | : Virgin Books Limited |
| Total Pages | : 186 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Automobile driving |
| ISBN | : 9780753500231 |
| Author | : Alan Bissett |
| Publisher | : Polygon |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2011-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781846971785 |
Since its first publication 10 years ago, Boyracers has established itself as a contemporary Scottish cult classic. It is a totally fresh, savvy, and supremely honest take on being young, naive and hopeful, and the pains of living life at hyperspeed in a mad, pop-culture world. It is fast, pacy and funny—an exhilarating joyride through the formative years of four Falkirk teenagers. The author has contributed an afterword to this special anniversary edition.
| Author | : Ian Whybrow |
| Publisher | : Hodder Children's Books |
| Total Pages | : 64 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Children's stories |
| ISBN | : 9780340778920 |
His mum and dad think that Henry's new friend Gary is bad news. But Henry's dad has a bigger problem as well. If he doesn't win the charity go-kart race he might lose his job. Nobody could forsee what happens at the track though - a mystery boy racer appears with a surprise for everyone.
| Author | : Mike Seate |
| Publisher | : Parker House Publishing Incorporated,Csi |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2008-09-25 |
| Genre | : Motorcycling |
| ISBN | : 9780979689192 |
A fascinating expose of the culture of the cafe racer - a motorcycle culture which emerged from WWII in the UK and the USA. Today, it's in the midst of a huge restrspective.
| Author | : Rowland Atkinson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2014-03-26 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1317907221 |
Written in a unique format, Shades of Deviance is a turbo-driven guide to crime and deviance, offering 56 politically engaged, thought-provoking and accessibly written accounts of a wide range of socially and legally prohibited acts. This book will be essential reading for undergraduate students in the fields of criminology and sociology and those preparing to embark on degree courses in these fields, as well as general readers. Written by field-leading experts from across the globe and designed for those who want a clear and exciting introduction to the complex areas of crime and deviance, this book provides a large number of short overviews of a wide range of social problems, harms and criminal acts. Offering a series of cutting-edge and critical treatments of issues such as war and murder, paedophilia, ecocide, human experimentation, stalking and sexting, this book also gives a guide to further readings and suggestions for other media to develop the reader’s understanding of these issues. Shades of Deviance requires readers to critically reconsider their ideas about what is right and wrong, about what is socially harmful and which problems we should focus our attention on. It also provides careful analysis and reasoned explanation of complex issues in a world in which sensationalist headlines, anxiety and fear about crime permeate our lives - read it to be prepared!
| Author | : Mattias De Backer |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2016-05-20 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1317395522 |
Which public and whose space? The understanding of public space as an arena where individuals can claim full use and access hides a reality of constant negotiation, conflict and surveillance. This collection uses case studies concerning the management, use, and transgression of public space to invite reflection on the way in which everyday social interaction is framed and shaped by the physical environment and vice versa. International experts from fields including geography, criminology, sociology and urban studies come together to debate the concepts of order and conflict in public space. This book is divided into two parts: spaces of control, and spaces of transgression. Section I focuses on formal and informal surveillance and the politics of control, using case studies to compare strategies in spaces including Olympic cities, luxury skyscrapers, residential neighbourhoods and shopping malls. Section II focuses on transgressive or deviant behaviour in public spaces, with case studies examining behaviour in nightlife districts, governance of homelessness, boy-racer culture and abortion protests. The epilogue concludes the book with an exploration of possible future avenues for research on public space, and a critical appraisal of the concept of public space itself. This interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to students, researchers and professionals in the areas of criminology, sociology, surveillance studies, human and social geography, and urban studies and planning.
| Author | : Karen Lumsden |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2019-01-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1317432746 |
Reflexivity is valuable in social research because it draws attention to the researcher as part of the world being studied and reminds us that the individuals involved in our research are subjects, not objects. By being reflexive we acknowledge that we cannot be separated from our biographies. This volume reviews key debates concerning reflexivity in theory, methods, and practice. It mounts a defence of reflexivity against new materialist and post-qualitative critiques and the pressures exerted on scholars from the neoliberal marketized university system which privileges fast academia at the expense of slow, reflective scholarship. While defending reflexivity, this book also those identifies issues which plague mainstream sociological operationalizations of a positivistic form of reflexivity. It argues for the extension of reflexivity into domains otherwise neglected in public accounts, and a shift from reflexivity as an individualized quality of the researcher (used to judge peers and naval-gaze) to a feminist, collaborative, reflexive sensibility which is mindful of the wider contexts shaping the construction of knowledge(s), experience(s), and of the role of research communities. Providing examples of reflexivity in action from academics at different stages of their careers, Reflexivity will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Sociology, Qualitative Research Methods, Criminology, Ethnography, and Ethics of Research.
