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Harm and Disorder in the Urban Space: Social Control, Sense and Sensibility


Harm and Disorder in the Urban Space: Social Control, Sense and Sensibility

Hardback by Peršak, Nina; Di Ronco, Anna (University of Essex, UK)

Harm and Disorder in the Urban Space: Social Control, Sense and Sensibility

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ISBN:
9780367552664
Publication Date:
28 Apr 2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:
Routledge
Pages:
202 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 27 May - 1 Jun 2024
Harm and Disorder in the Urban Space: Social Control, Sense and Sensibility

Description

Bringing together an international group of authors, this book addresses the important issues lying at the intersection between urban space, on the one hand, and incivilities and urban harm, on the other. Progressive urbanisation not only influences people's living conditions, their well-being and health but may also generate social conflict and consequently fuel disorder and crime. Rooted in interdisciplinary scholarship, this book considers a range of urban issues, focussing specifically on their sensory, emotive, power and structural dimensions. The visual, audio and olfactory components that offend or harm are inspected, including how urban social control agencies respond to violations of imposed sensory regimes. Emotive dimensions examined include the consideration of people emotions and sensibilities in the perception of incivilities, in the shaping of social control to deviant phenomena, and their role in activating or suppressing people's resistance towards otherwise harmful everyday practices. Power and structural dimensions examine the agents who decide and define what anti-social and harmful is and the wider socio-economic and cultural setting in which urbanites and social control agents operate. Connecting with sensory and affective turns in other disciplines, the book offers an original, distinctive and nuanced approach to understanding the harms, disorder and social control in the city. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to those engaged with criminology, sociology, human geography, psychology, urban studies, socio-legal studies and all those interested in the relationship between urban space and urban harm.

Contents

1. Incivilities, harm and social control in urban space Part One 2. Exploring sound and noise in the urban environment: Tensions between cultural expression and municipal control, health and inequality, police power and resistance 3.Sounds dangerous: Black music subcultures as victims of state regulation and social control 4.Offending sights and urban governance: Expectations of city aesthetics and spatial responses to the unsightly 5.Green criminology perspective on light pollution 6.When the city smells: Perceptions of decay and physical disorder in Rome Part Two 7.Emotion and the city: Emotive dimensions of incivilities and of their urban social control 8.Power at play: The policing of sex work across two European cities 9.Structural violence, deviance and social control in the urban life and space 10.The sensory, emotive and power dimensions of incivilities and their social control in the city

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