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Bouncers: Violence and Governance in the Night-Time Economy

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This book is the first attempt to understand Britain's night-time economy, the violence that pervades it, and the bouncers whose job it is to prevent it. Using ethnography, participant observation and extensive interviews with all the main players, this controversial book charts the emergence of the bouncer as one of the most graphic symbols in the iconography of post-industrial Britain.

Language: English

Pages: 336

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: May 29, 2003

ISBN: 0199252246

ISBN 13: 9780199252244

Bouncers: Violence and Governance in the Night-Time Economy

4.3/5 ( ratings)

This book is the first attempt to understand Britain's night-time economy, the violence that pervades it, and the bouncers whose job it is to prevent it. Using ethnography, participant observation and extensive interviews with all the main players, this controversial book charts the emergence of the bouncer as one of the most graphic symbols in the iconography of post-industrial Britain.

Language: English

Pages: 336

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: May 29, 2003

ISBN: 0199252246

ISBN 13: 9780199252244

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