The practice of binge drinking has in recent decades consolidated what is known as the 'culture of intoxication' among the young people of Spain. This has coincided with the increase in the use of mobile-phone technology and of social networks within the night-time economy. Our main aim is to explore these new, potentially risky uses and violent behaviours, through an analysis of the discourses of the young people involved. This is a qualitative study with in-depth interviews (n ¼ 24) of young people between the ages of sixteen and twenty-two, resident in two cities in the south of Spain: Granada and Seville. Findings: our results show that gender violence is present in the contexts where alcohol is consumed intensively and is related to the use of the mobile phone in interpersonal or couple relationships. This violence is practiced mainly against the women, who suffer sexual harassment and violation of their public image through information and communication technologies. Our data show that prevention should consider the new vulnerabilities that are generated out of the problematic association between technology and alcohol, using innovative strategies that are adapted to the new patterns of youth behaviour.
This article provides an analysis of the perception of fear in nightlife spaces, its relationship with sexual violence and the strategies that young people implement to combat these situations in two provinces of Andalusia (Seville and Granada), Spain. To this end, qualitative research was carried out through in-depth interviews and discussion groups with 73 boys and girls between the ages of 16 and 22. The article asserts that there are gender differences in the spaces of fear. Girls are the ones who experience fear the most when they walk alone, and at specific times – a feeling that is made worse in specific public spaces. The study results show that girls’ fear is associated with sexual assault and boys’ fear with robberies or fights. Results show that three main types of strategies are used in the face of these fears: avoidance, confronting risks and empowerment. All these strategies include the use of new communication technologies. This article seeks to provide a theoretical contribution to enhancing a gender perspective in the field of urban geography.
Most of the research on rural youth has focused on the material conditions that cause their migration to cities, but it has not tended to address sociocultural dimensions, such as those concerning leisure and what might condition the processes of migration among young people. The aim of this study is to contrast the discourse and representations that young people have regarding leisure with the festive practices that they carry out in Spanish villages. The fieldwork consisted of 13 discussion groups and 38 in-depth interviews (N = 118), with participants aged between 15 and 24 years. The results show that: (1) young people construct their idea of partying through dominant, dichotomous and unequal rural-urban representations, demonstrating the presence of traditional stereotypes around rurality; (2) the village becomes desirable as a place for partying at specific times of the year, such as local festivals; (3) the practices of rural youth call into question this normative imaginary, as is also shown by their adaptation, belonging and agency in the construction and management of leisure. Getting rid of stereotypes about rurality and creating positive thinking about the leisure possibilities in villages can lead young people to see it as a space for opportunities and personal development.☆ The data form part of the project, "Etnografía digital feminista en los espacios recreativos de uso y abuso de drogas entre los jóvenes" ["Feminist digital ethnography in the recreational spaces of the use and abuse of drugs among young people"] (PID2019-105122RB-I00/State Research Agency
This study investigates the factors associated with alcohol-facilitated sexual violence among young women in the Spanish night-time economy, through the analysis of twenty-six qualitative interviews with eleven young women and fifteen young men who frequent these spaces. Our results show how this type of violence originates, both from the perspective of the young women and the young men. The young women warn of the risk of sexual victimization associated with the abuse of alcohol. The young men, for their part, describe the tactics used to gain non-consensual sexual contact. These data contribute to showing how important it is for the legislation on these matters to have a gender perspective. They also add to the complex debate on the penal reform that is ongoing in Spain, in particular on sexual crimes facilitated by alcohol abuse.
La violencia de género es una muestra más de desigualdad que sufren las mujeres. Proporcionando derechos de prevención y de reacción, entre otros, en el ámbito laboral interpretado en sentido amplio, puede lograrse la supresión de esta lacra. De ahí que progresivamente cada vez más planes de igualdad vayan incorporando contenidos destinados bien a la concienciación, bien a la prevención o, sobre todo, a la tutela sociolaboral de las mujeres víctimas de violencia de género. El objetivo principal que persigue la presente investigación es analizar el tratamiento que de la violencia de género hacen los planes de igualdad aprobados durante los últimos cinco años en España. Para lo cual, contamos con una muestra de 60 planes de igualdad negociados y consensuados con los representantes de los trabajadores y localizados en el Registro de Acuerdos Colectivos. Los resultados muestran que, si bien es cierto que son numerosos los planes que no hacen tratamiento de la violencia de género y algunos lo hacen pero de manera superficial, creemos que el hecho de que cerca del 80% de los planes de igualdad analizados contemplen alguna mención a esta lacra debe ser valorado muy positivamente como reflejo de la progresiva atención y, por tanto, importancia de estos instrumentos que, seguramente, debieran de ser objeto de una más clara coordinación a nivel legal que impida un tratamiento estanco de dos realidades –la desigualdad y la violencia frente a las mujeres– lógica e intrínsecamente conectadas.
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