Something for Everyone? : Changes and Choices in the Ethno-Party Scene in Urban Nightlife

Bruin, Simone Boogaarts-de

doi:10.5117/9789056296698

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“…This changing clubbing landscape has made it possible for ethnic-event organisations to arrange their so-called ethno-parties in popular clubs (Boogaarts de Bruin, 2011). Lastly, girls and women have been identified as consuming night-time entertainment and leisure spaces in much greater numbers than before (O'Brien et al, 2009).…”

Section: Dynamics In Practices Of Going Outmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction: Geographies of the urban night

2014

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Academic research tends to overlook what happens when night falls. This special issue aims to bring the space-time of the urban night to the fore by asking how nocturnal cities are produced, used, experienced and regulated in different geographical contexts. Despite local variations and specificities important similarities and ongoing transformations are identified regarding the long-term trends in the formation of the space-times of the urban night. We have structured this special issue on the basis of four important focal points of research for studying the night: (1) changing meanings and experiences of urban darkness and nights; (2) the evolution of the night-time economy; (3) the intensification of regulation; and (4) dynamics in practices of going out. By bringing different sets of literature and theoretical perspectives together this special issue provides a relational perspective on the urban night. The special place of the nightNight-time has been consistently neglected in the field of Urban Studies. A major part of academic work within Human Geography, Sociology and Planning suffers from nyctalopia: night blindness. Day is often the dominant discourse focusing on urban daily activities and geographies of everyday life. Academic research tends to overlook what happens when night falls. The current special issue aims to bring the space-time of the urban night to the fore by asking how nocturnal cities are produced, used, experienced

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Section: Dynamics In Practices Of Going Outmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction: Geographies of the urban night

2014

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“…One important observation is the significant under‐ representation of ethnic minorities in the town centre at night, which does not reflect the city's demographic make‐up (Schwanen et al ., ). This could be based on discrimination at the door (Boogaarts‐de Bruin, ) and/or a mismatch between the clubbing preferences of ethnic‐minority youth and the specific supply of Utrecht's NTE. The club‐to‐bar/pub ratio (1:29) indicates that nightlife is strongly bar‐/pub‐oriented (Brands et al ., ).…”

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“…Over the past decade, researchers have paid specific attention to the ethnic effects of bouncers' security governance (Hadfield, ; S⊘gaard, ). Several studies have suggested that bouncers sometimes deny entry to, or discriminate against, ethnic‐minority youth (Measham and Hadfield, ; Boogaarts‐de Bruin, ). Research among Dutch students has also shown that ethnic minorities were less positive about door staff than their native Dutch counterparts (van Aalst and Schwanen, ).…”

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Whose Responsibility? The Role of Bouncers in Policing the Public Spaces of Nightlife Districts

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Aalst

2015

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article, based on interviews with bouncers and on ethnographic observations in two nightlife districts in the centre of two Dutch cities, Utrecht and Rotterdam, shows that public–private collaboration reveals ways of controlling public space that differ from traditional ways of policing. It demonstrates that plural policing does not automatically imply greater responsibility of private actors towards public (nightlife) spaces. A history of mistrust of private security, bouncers' increasingly ambiguous working conditions and the high levels of surveillance bouncers are subject to result in bouncers rather focusing on protecting the nightclub for which they are responsible and guaranteeing their own safety within the surveillance network, than on venturing out into public spaces to ‘protect and assure visitors' safety', as is assumed in Safe Nightlife Policies.

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“…It was also remarkable that there was a clear underrepresentation of ethnic minorities in town at night (Schwanen et al ., 2012). This can be the result of discrimination at the door (see also Boogaarts-de Bruijn, 2011) and/or a mismatch between the clubbing preferences of ethnic minority youth and the specific supply of Utrecht’s night-time economy.…”

Section: Safe Nightlife Agreements In Utrechtmentioning

confidence: 99%