Respectability, Morality and Disgust in the Night-Time Economy: Exploring Reactions to ‘Lap Dance’ Clubs in England and Wales

Hubbard, Phil; Colosi, Rachela

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“…The study of the night is perhaps more fragmented, drawing on criminology (Hobbs, Hadfield, Lister, & Winlow, 2003), sociology, cultural studies, and geography (Nofre & Eldridge, 2018;Shaw, 2018), planning (Roberts & Eldridge, 2009), and the health sciences. If it were at all possible to speak of 'night studies' we could point to a wide range of topics from licensing (Hadfield, 2006) and alcohol and drug use (Measham, 2006) to youth culture, debates about morality (Hubbard & Colosi, 2015), critical work on theories of the night and its historical and cultural specificities (Koslofsky, 2011;Williams, 2008), and debates about changing patterns of time-use (Crary, 2013). Research into affects, ambiences and emotions associated with the night have also been examined (Brands, Schwanen, & Van Aalst, 2015;Hubbard, 2016) while another body of work explores lighting in relation to planning and urban design, as well as the effects of lighting on human and non-human animals (Meier, Hasenöhrl, Krause, & Pottharst, 2014;Sloane, Slater, & Entwistle, 2016).…”

Section: City Tourism and The Urban Nightmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism and the night: towards a broader understanding of nocturnal city destinations

Eldridge

Smith

2019

Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events

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This special edition emerged out of a two-day symposium titled 'Tourism and the Night' which was held at the University of Westminster, London in the summer of 2017. Organised by the editors of this edition, and our colleague Ilaria Pappalepore, the symposium brought together scholars working at the interface of tourism and nightlife studies. Delegates from Australia, North America and across Europe attended the event, confirming our sense that the night is becoming increasingly important to the experience, study, management and representation of tourism. The papers presented were heavily oriented towards urban, Western contexts and the challenges and benefits of urban tourism at night. The policy interventions instigated by various cities were discussed with papers addressing a wide range of debates, practices, policies and theories. Case studies from Barcelona, Mashhad, Sydney, Lisbon, Toronto and Berlin, amongst others, demonstrated the breadth of research in this field and how the night and tourism intersect. The papers presented in this issue represent only some of the case studies examined over those two days, but they draw out some of the dominant themes; pilgrimage, lighting and light festivals, the rights of hospitality employees, gentrification, urban commodification, relations between tourists and locals, and the shifting ways that both nightlife and tourism are conceived. The symposium had several points of departure. In particular, The Villes Europeennes Et Nuit Urbaine colloquium, held at the University Paul Valery, Montpellier, in 2016 was influential. This earlier colloquium had featured several papers on the aesthetics and politics of light festivals and illumination events. Importantly, these events were not discussed as simply tourist events that just happened to occur at night, nor were they read as merely an extension of already existing daytime tourism patterns. Instead, and echoing the extensive work of Edensor (2012, 2015), both the night and tourism were positioned as central to the ways the events were planned, managed and experienced. The 'Touristified Everyday Life' conference in the spring of 2017 at the Georg Simmel Centre for Metropolitan Studies in Berlin featured papers along a similar vein. Attention was drawn to the ways that concerns about localtourist relations, gentrification, city branding, and everyday life were becoming especially critical at night. Debates about urban tourism and related themes of regeneration and gentrification were explored extensively, but the important question of what is it about the night that matters here was central. The issues of overtourism and touristification in Amsterdam, Berlin and Barcelona are well known, but what happens when those issues play out in the night? Is it simply a case of tourism extending into the night, or does the night in itself represent something different about the ways cities are experienced by tourists, and planned or represented by policy makers? These events and our 2017 symposium coincided with several important po...

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Section: City Tourism and The Urban Nightmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism and the night: towards a broader understanding of nocturnal city destinations

Eldridge

Smith

2019

Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events

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“…Following this, research on the night has continued to build on how gender has influenced night time policing, with O'Brien's (2010) work highlighting the significance of the gendered door at night. More recently, Hubbard and Colosi (2015) have drawn attention to the importance of gendered notions of morality and disgust in the denial of licenses for sexual entertainment venues in the UK. This research is crucial in highlighting how gendered subjectivities continue to influence licensing decisions, with discussions around sexual entertainment venues framed as causing specific harms to women and reinstalling long-standing debates about the vulnerability of women at night (Hubbard and Colosi, 2015: 589).…”

Section: The Policing Of the Nightmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Production and Governance of Race in Licensing Decisions: The Initial Findings of an Ethnographic Researcher Exploring Race At Night In ‘Greenshire’

Wicks

2019

Entertainment and Sports Law Journal

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Drawing from interviews and observations with police licensing managers and town licensing officers, this paper highlights how race is produced and sustained in licensing decisions in 'Greenshireʼ. Previous research has evidenced the disproportionate impact of the Licensing Act 2003 on racialised night time venues in 'Southville', London (Böse and Talbot, 2007, Talbot 2004). Building on this work, this paper explores how race is produced and governed in licensing decisions in a more provincial context. I consider the disparities between the objectives set out in the Licensing Act 2003 and what occurs in practice. I reveal how the licensing objectives are presented as objective and non-discriminatory and argue that this does not translate to licensing practice. I highlight how the racialised Other (Hall 1997) continues to be problematised in licensing decisions, reflected in the tentativeness around temporary event notices for 'urban' nights and increased licensing conditions for pubs known for their Gypsy, Roma or Traveller clientele.

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“…Alongside lights and signage, doors and windows contributed to the brothels’ ‘aesthetics of concealment and seduction’ (Hubbard and Colosi, : 790). They were important architectural features that shaped the way residents thought about the brothels.…”

Section: Sensory Perceptions Of Brothels By Residentsmentioning

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“…In his research on sex work in other Western cities, Phil Hubbard has regularly framed societal attitudes towards sex work through the often simultaneous responses of disgust and desire, ‘so that the prostitute is both repudiated and desired’ (Hubbard, : 677). In their work on public attitudes to lap dancing clubs, Hubbard and Colosi () develop this further. Here they make the case that the participants on guided walking tours that they organized were often vocal in their disgust towards the clubs and their clientele, while also articulating disgust as well as pity for the women working in them.…”

Section: Encountering and Creatively Observing The Brothelsmentioning

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Sex Work, Sensory Urbanism and Visual Criminology: Exploring the Role of the Senses in Shaping Residential Perceptions of Brothels in Blackpool

Cooper

Cook

Bilby

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Urban studies and criminology have much to offer each other, but the links between the two have so far been underexplored. This article is an illustration of how aspects of both can, and should, be brought into conversation: namely the literatures on sensory urbanism (in urban studies) and visual criminology. The benefits of doing so are evidenced by a case study exploring the ways in which the senses shape residents’ perceptions of brothels in Blackpool. Three key findings emerge from the case study. First, the residents interviewed tended to focus on the visual aspects of brothels rather than other sensory aspects. Nevertheless, touch and smell (and their interaction with the visual) also played small but important roles in shaping residential perceptions. Second, residential perceptions of sex work and brothels are linked to, and encompass, a plurality of emotional responses. Third, while the residents could see or hear little of what was happening inside the brothels, they often sought out sensory clues from outside, typically drawn from the architectural features of the brothels. Such insights, we argue, are made possible by, and highlight the possibilities of, the bringing together of urban studies and criminology.

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Respectability, Morality and Disgust in the Night-Time Economy: Exploring Reactions to ‘Lap Dance’ Clubs in England and Wales

Cited by 26 publications

References 48 publications

Tourism and the night: towards a broader understanding of nocturnal city destinations

Tourism and the night: towards a broader understanding of nocturnal city destinations

The Production and Governance of Race in Licensing Decisions: The Initial Findings of an Ethnographic Researcher Exploring Race At Night In ‘Greenshire’

Sex Work, Sensory Urbanism and Visual Criminology: Exploring the Role of the Senses in Shaping Residential Perceptions of Brothels in Blackpool

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