Rhythms of the Night: Spatiotemporal Inequalities in the Nighttime Economy

Schwanen, Tim; Aalst, Irina van; Brands, Jelle; Timan, Tjerk

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“…Such work has offered important insights. For instance, Schwanen, Van Aalst, Brands, and Timan (2012) discuss the inability of some to participate as consumers in the night-time economy. The authors argue that, within the night-time economy, young people dominate, and there are also inequalities rooted in class, race/ethnicity and gender.…”

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Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences

Wilkinson

2016

Social & Cultural Geography

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Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences

Wilkinson

2016

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“…According to the city's website, almost half of the population of 16 years and older is highly educated (at least a bachelor degree or equivalent) and 22 per cent of the city's inhabitants are of non-Western descent. 3 Our previous research has shown that the nightlife district in Utrecht is disproportionally White compared with the city's resident population (Schwanen et al, 2012): only 11 per cent of the consumers in the NTE were of non-White extraction. The Whiteness of Utrecht's NTE primarily reflects the supply of bars and clubs, which are oriented strongly towards highly educated (White) students and young urban professionals who live in/around the city.…”

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“…Three forms of ambiguity, defined as the absence of stable and welldetermined effects, can be identified (1 Our empirical analysis is situated in Utrecht-a historic city with a population of 6316,000 inhabitants, in The Netherlands. Nightlife facilities are clustered in the city centre, consisting of a mix of restaurant, cinemas, (small) pubs and clubs without strict 'closing times' or regulation of alcohol sales (Schwanen et al, 2012). Utrecht was selected because it is the fifth-largest city in The Netherlands and one of the first to develop and implement Safe Nightlife Policies (van Liempt and van Aalst, 2012).…”

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Fear of crime and affective ambiguities in the night-time economy

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Aalst³

2013

Urban Studies

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This article analyses fear of crime in the night-time economy as an event that emerges from, and unfolds as part of, the on-going encounters with human and non-human elements in particular places. A conceptual approach to understanding fear of crime is elaborated that highlights the role of ambiguity, meaning that a particular element does not have stable, well-determined effects on fear of crime, and the importance of thinking of fear as the folding of immediate futures and the past into the experienced present. Drawing on empirical research with university students in Utrecht, the Netherlands, the article explores how lighting, policing and the presence of 'undesired others' affect fear. Multiple forms of ambiguity are shown to exist, suggesting that interventions in the built environment and zero-tolerance policing tactics are unlikely to reduce fear of crime in the night-time economy as much as past research, influential policy and media discourses have suggested.

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“…This sense of control written through control of schedules is one that echoes in Schwanen et al's (2012) paper. Here the patterning of nightlife is used to look at who regulates the temporalities of the nighttime economy.…”

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Temporal Ecologies: Multiple Times, Multiple Spaces, and Complicating Space Times

Crang

2012

Environ Plan A

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CommentaryTemporal ecologies: multiple times, multiple spaces, and complicating space times It has become rightly de rigeur for critical geography to talk of spacetime as linked together. What the papers gathered here also show is that this handy linking into one term is, if useful and important, also, in some ways, a chaotic conceptualisation. In one sense this is because space and time interact in a multitude of ways-whose complex patterning this theme issue does so much to illustrate. In a rather deeper sense it is because the terms space and time actually convey many different senses. The question this collection of papers raises is what kind of 'time' is seen interacting with what kind of 'space' when we talk of spatiotemporal geographies. What kinds of times, what kinds of spaces, and what resulting timespaces do we see in these critical geographies? The timing and placing of events often reveal issues of power and inequality for sure. But I want to suggest we can see in these papers how power is etched into the kinds of times and spaces that organise events and through which events unfold. If it is commonplace to follow Lefebvre's (1991, page 334) argument that social confl ict and power are not just a matter of social relations and contradictions in space but of space, then the same must apply to time and by extension the forms of timespace. What is clear is the plurality of possibilities that are presented in the papers for how these combinations work.In this discussion there is not room to lay out an exhaustive account of the possible permutations of spaces, times, and spacetimes. There are in fact competing attempts to produce lists of these and the resulting permutations [such as Dodgshon's (2008) salutary listing of thirty-seven different facets traced back into various approaches within geography]. So this must be a more strategic intervention to tease out a few key lines from these papers. Adam (2003) points to four 'c's' structuring concerns in social studies of time-the commodifi cation of time, the control of times, the colonisation of the future, and the creation of time to human design. These give us a way in which to look at some of the constellations revealed within and between the papers.We might start with the most familiar sense of locating events in time and space through time geography. Classically this approach has been underpinned by a notion of abstract space and abstract time. This then is the world in which space becomes reduced to coordinates of location east-west and north-south which gives rise to infi nitely divisible and exchangeable units in an infi nitely open series (x 1 , x 2 , x 3 , … , x n , y 1 , y 2 , y 3 , … , y n ). Thus locations differ only by placement in the series and they can be ever more fi nely subdivided into smaller components, or indeed added together to form larger units. The only change is quantity. It drains out all substantive content from space and replaces it with empty, exchangeable units of measurement. What this facilitated was the rapid commodif...

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Rhythms of the Night: Spatiotemporal Inequalities in the Nighttime Economy

Cited by 85 publications

References 27 publications

Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences

Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences

Fear of crime and affective ambiguities in the night-time economy

Temporal Ecologies: Multiple Times, Multiple Spaces, and Complicating Space Times

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