NARRATIVES OF DECLINE: Youth, Dis/order and Community in an English 'Middletown'

Loader, Ian; Girling, Evi; Sparks, Richard

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“…Fear inhabits people, and they, rather than ethereal, mobile or freefloating discourses, are the subject of empirical and analytical attention. Fear is also seen as situated and contextual, affected by local places and events as well as wider spatial settings (Loader et al 1998;Smith 1987Smith , 1989 People also worry, feel angry, are bold, and hope, and all of these emotions are viewed as having the potential to be transformative (Koskela 1997). Finally, fear is not a quantity or quality we can fully know, and cannot be assumed.…”

Section: Critical Work On the Fear Of Crimementioning

confidence: 99%

Globalized fear? Towards an emotional geopolitics

Pain

2009

Progress in Human Geography

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Drawing on feminist scholarship, I call for an emotional geopolitics of fear which connects political processes and everyday emotional topographies in a less hierarchical, more enabling relationship. I employ conscientization as a tool to inform the reconceptualisation of global fears within critical geopolitics, and to move forward epistemological practice and our relationship as scholars with social change.

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Section: Critical Work On the Fear Of Crimementioning

confidence: 99%

Globalized fear? Towards an emotional geopolitics

Pain

2009

Progress in Human Geography

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“…In seeking to understand how these processes work in 'ordinary' or 'marginal middle class' neighbourhoods (Allen et al, 2007), we develop Festinger's thesis on cognitive dissonance (1959) which provides the theoretical tools for exploring how residents collectively work to manage delinquency through the process of talk. In doing so, our ideas are inspired by the work of Girling et al (1998Girling et al ( , 2000 and Loader et al (1998) on naturally occurring crime talk, which we extend with reference to the growing importance of online talk about place and crime. We then analyse the discursive strategies of rationalisation and neutralisation adopted by residents as they attempt to re-establish the symbolic value of the estate and re-affirm their investment decision, before formulating our conclusions.…”

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Crime Talk in the Suburbs: Symbolic Representations of Status and Security on a Master Planned Estate

Cheshire

Wickes

2012

Housing Studies

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Master planned estates (MPEs) are marketed, sold and purchased on the basis of powerful symbols of security and aesthetics, as well as shared aspirations, values and lifestyle patterns. Living in an MPE not only represents a significant economic investment, but also provides residents with symbolic capital that comes with living in a new, secure, and high status community. Drawing on a case study of an MPE in Brisbane, Queensland, this paper examines the discursive strategies used by residents when the symbolic representation of their suburb is challenged by an ongoing problem of delinquency. By reviewing resident 'blogs' on community forums, it examines how the dissonance between the representation and the experience of the MPE is collectively managed, through the medium of talk, to rationalise and neutralise the problem.

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“…Examining the impact of worry about crime on 1 Criminological on the fear of crime has been motivated not only by its social problem status, of course. For example readers of this journal will also be all-too-familiar with the plea that we need better conceptual and methodological tools to more fully appreciate the complex and contested nature of public thoughts and feelings about crime (Taylor, 1995;Farrall et al, 1997;Hollway & Jefferson, 1997;Loader et al, 1998;Gabriel & Greve, 2003;Farrall & Gadd, 2004;Jackson, 2004;Sutton & Farrall, 2005). 2 For a discussion of this instrument, see Gold et al (2002).…”

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Public Health and Fear of Crime: A Prospective Cohort Study

Jackson¹,

Stafford²

2009

British Journal of Criminology

164

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Public insecurities about crime are widely assumed to erode individual well-being and community cohesion. Yet robust evidence on the link between worry about crime and health is surprisingly scarce. This paper draws on data from a prospective cohort study (the Whitehall II study) to show a strong statistical effect of mental health and physical functioning on worry about crime. Combining with existing evidence, we suggest a feedback model where worry about crime harms health, which in turn serves to heighten worry about crime. We conclude with the idea that, while fear of crime may express a whole set of social and political anxieties, there is a core to worry about crime that is implicated in real cycles of decreased health and perceived vulnerability to victimization. The challenge for future study is to integrate core aspects of the everyday experience of fear of crime with the more layered and expressive features of this complex social phenomenon. [158 words]

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NARRATIVES OF DECLINE: Youth, Dis/order and Community in an English 'Middletown'

Cited by 43 publications

References 21 publications

Globalized fear? Towards an emotional geopolitics

Globalized fear? Towards an emotional geopolitics

Crime Talk in the Suburbs: Symbolic Representations of Status and Security on a Master Planned Estate

Public Health and Fear of Crime: A Prospective Cohort Study

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