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The world has been bombarded in recent years with images of the
luxurious lives and wealth of corrupt oligarchs and kleptocrats,
amassed at the expense of ordinary people. Such images exploit our
feelings of injustice, are taken as indicative of moral decay and
inspire a desire to purge our economies of dirty money, objects and
people. But why do anti-corruption efforts routinely fail? What
kind of world are they creating? Looking at luxury art,
antiquities, superyachts and populist politics, this book explores
the connection between luxury and corruption, and offers an
alternative to the received wisdom of how we tackle corruption.
The world has been bombarded in recent years with images of the
luxurious lives and wealth of corrupt oligarchs and kleptocrats,
amassed at the expense of ordinary people. Such images exploit our
feelings of injustice, are taken as indicative of moral decay and
inspire a desire to purge our economies of dirty money, objects and
people. But why do anti-corruption efforts routinely fail? What
kind of world are they creating? Looking at luxury art,
antiquities, superyachts and populist politics, this book explores
the connection between luxury and corruption, and offers an
alternative to the received wisdom of how we tackle corruption.
1. The concept of social harm is gaining in ground in Criminology
as an alternative way of reconceptualizing crime within a wider
context. This book offers a major intervention in taking stock of
the field and suggesting ways forward. 2. This book would certainly
be used as supplementary reading across a number of courses in
criminological and social theory, as well as upper level courses on
social problems and advanced criminological theory. 3. This book is
multi-disciplinary, moving beyond criminology to consider liberal
political economic theory and moral philosophy.
1. The concept of social harm is gaining in ground in Criminology
as an alternative way of reconceptualizing crime within a wider
context. This book offers a major intervention in taking stock of
the field and suggesting ways forward. 2. This book would certainly
be used as supplementary reading across a number of courses in
criminological and social theory, as well as upper level courses on
social problems and advanced criminological theory. 3. This book is
multi-disciplinary, moving beyond criminology to consider liberal
political economic theory and moral philosophy.
Taking us on an ethnographic journey into the spatially
transgressive practice of parkour and freerunning, Parkour,
Deviance and Leisure in the Late-Capitalist City: An Ethnography
attempts to explain and untangle some of the contradictions that
surround this popular lifestyle sport and its exclusion from our
hyper-regulated cities. While the existing criminological wisdom
suggests that these practices are a form of politicised resistance,
this book positions parkour and freerunning as hyper-conformist to
the underlying values of consumer capitalism and explains how
late-capitalism has created a contradiction for itself in which it
must stoke desire for these lifestyle practices whilst also
excluding their free practice from central urban spaces. Drawing on
the emergent deviant leisure perspective, this book takes us into
the life-worlds of young people who are attempting to navigate the
challenges and anxieties of early adulthood. For the young people
in this study, consumer capitalism's commodification of rebellious
iconography offered unique identities of 'cool individualism' and
opportunities for flexibilised employment; while the
post-industrial 'creative city' attempted to harness parkour's
practice, prohibitively if necessary, into approved spatial
contexts under the buzzwords of 'culture' and 'creativity'. This
book offers a vital contribution to the criminological literature
on spatial transgression, and in doing so, engages in a critical
reappraisal of the evolution of the relationships between work,
leisure, identity and urban space in consumer capitalism.
This book brings together a collection of critical essays that
challenge the existing dogma of leisure as an unmitigated social
good, in order to examine the commodification and marketisation of
leisure across a number of key sites. Leisure and consumer culture
have become symbolic of the individual freedoms of liberal society,
ostensibly presenting individuals with the opportunity to display
individual creativity, cultural competence and taste. This book
problematizes these assertions, and considers the range of harms
that emerge in a consumer society predicated upon intense
individualism and symbolic competition. Approaching the field of
commodified leisure through the lens of social harm, this
collection of essays pushes far beyond criminology's traditional
interest in 'deviant' forms of leisure, to consider the normalized
social, interpersonal and environmental harms that emerge at the
intersection of leisure and consumer capitalism. Capturing the
current vitality and interdisciplinary scope of recent work which
is underpinned by the deviant leisure perspective, this collection
uses case studies, original research and other forms of empirical
enquiry to scrutinise activities that range from alcohol
consumption and gambling, to charity tourism; CrossFit training;
and cosmetic pharmaceuticals. Drawn from researchers across the UK,
US, Europe and Australia, Deviant Leisure: Criminological
Perspectives on Leisure and Harm represents the first systematic
attempt at a criminological consideration of the global harms of
the leisure industry; firmly establishing leisure as a subject of
serious criminological importance.
This book brings together a collection of critical essays that
challenge the existing dogma of leisure as an unmitigated social
good, in order to examine the commodification and marketisation of
leisure across a number of key sites. Leisure and consumer culture
have become symbolic of the individual freedoms of liberal society,
ostensibly presenting individuals with the opportunity to display
individual creativity, cultural competence and taste. This book
problematizes these assertions, and considers the range of harms
that emerge in a consumer society predicated upon intense
individualism and symbolic competition. Approaching the field of
commodified leisure through the lens of social harm, this
collection of essays pushes far beyond criminology's traditional
interest in 'deviant' forms of leisure, to consider the normalized
social, interpersonal and environmental harms that emerge at the
intersection of leisure and consumer capitalism. Capturing the
current vitality and interdisciplinary scope of recent work which
is underpinned by the deviant leisure perspective, this collection
uses case studies, original research and other forms of empirical
enquiry to scrutinise activities that range from alcohol
consumption and gambling, to charity tourism; CrossFit training;
and cosmetic pharmaceuticals. Drawn from researchers across the UK,
US, Europe and Australia, Deviant Leisure: Criminological
Perspectives on Leisure and Harm represents the first systematic
attempt at a criminological consideration of the global harms of
the leisure industry; firmly establishing leisure as a subject of
serious criminological importance.
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