Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the implications of both the Covid-19
pandemic and UK lockdown for the social, political and economic future of the UK. Drawing …

This article theorizes a link between contemporary masculinity in post‐industrial spaces and
'hardcore'gym culture. Over the last three decades the health and fitness industry has grown …

Social harm is one of the most potentially potent and transformative concepts currently
available to the social sciences. However, scholars have struggled to define social harm …

Street skateboarders are often excluded from public spaces with skating viewed as anti-
social or uncivil. In this article, we argue that it can also be regarded as problematic as it …

Studies of service delivery often assume that any deviance from service protocols when
interacting with customers is largely due to service worker ineptitude or incompetence; this is …

Resistance to unjust power and authority has long been the angry energy of everyday
struggle, the defiant democratization of progressive social movements, and the motor force …

This article argues that the time has arrived for leisure and consumerism to become key
objects of study for a twenty-first century critical criminology. As global capitalism struggles to …

Drawing on 25 qualitative interviews, this paper attends to and critiques neoliberalism to
demonstrate how management's enforcement of targets and the expectancy to overwork in …

In 'a world that has been built to accommodate only some'(Ahmed 2019: 221), how do those
engaging in public protest or experiencing housing insecurity make use of the material …

In many historic and post-industrial cities, tourism is often positioned as an important
component for urban regeneration. Yet, the promise of sustainability and social …