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Loading... Nightclub: Bouncers, Risk, and the Spectacle of Consumption (edition 2008)by George S. Rigakos
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)302.3Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Social Interaction Social interaction within groupsLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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