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Article: Towards a criminology of atmospheres: Law, affect and the codes of the street

TitleTowards a criminology of atmospheres: Law, affect and the codes of the street
Authors
KeywordsAffect
atmosphere
Bourdieu
Hong Kong
lawscape
Issue Date2021
PublisherSage Publications Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journal.aspx?pid=105505
Citation
Criminology & Criminal Justice, 2021, v. 21 n. 4, p. 455-471 How to Cite?
AbstractThe street has a long and distinguished pedigree in criminology as a site of human sociability, transgression and spontaneity. Recent scholarship in legal studies has, however, explored the role that non-human actors play in the normative ordering of urban life. These interventions suggest the need for criminologists of the street to take seriously not only the experiential foreground of crime but also its background. In this article, we seek to bring these traditions into dialogue through engagement with the concept of ‘atmosphere’ – a place-based mood or spatialised feeling that blends human and non-human elements, and has the capacity to act in a quasi-agentic manner. Drawing on an experiment in ‘atmospheric methods’ conducted during Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Umbrella Movement, in which some of the city’s central streets were occupied for 79 days, we seek to demonstrate that the analytics of ‘atmosphere’ offers a unique conceptual approach to urban life and street crime in the contemporary age.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/278183
ISSN
2023 Impact Factor: 1.6
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.473
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dc.contributor.authorFraser, A-
dc.contributor.authorMatthews, D-
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-04T08:09:04Z-
dc.date.available2019-10-04T08:09:04Z-
dc.date.issued2021-
dc.identifier.citationCriminology & Criminal Justice, 2021, v. 21 n. 4, p. 455-471-
dc.identifier.issn1748-8958-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/278183-
dc.description.abstractThe street has a long and distinguished pedigree in criminology as a site of human sociability, transgression and spontaneity. Recent scholarship in legal studies has, however, explored the role that non-human actors play in the normative ordering of urban life. These interventions suggest the need for criminologists of the street to take seriously not only the experiential foreground of crime but also its background. In this article, we seek to bring these traditions into dialogue through engagement with the concept of ‘atmosphere’ – a place-based mood or spatialised feeling that blends human and non-human elements, and has the capacity to act in a quasi-agentic manner. Drawing on an experiment in ‘atmospheric methods’ conducted during Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Umbrella Movement, in which some of the city’s central streets were occupied for 79 days, we seek to demonstrate that the analytics of ‘atmosphere’ offers a unique conceptual approach to urban life and street crime in the contemporary age.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journal.aspx?pid=105505-
dc.relation.ispartofCriminology & Criminal Justice-
dc.rightsAuthor(s), Contribution Title, Journal Title (Journal Volume Number and Issue Number) pp. xx-xx. Copyright © [year] (Copyright Holder). DOI: [DOI number].-
dc.subjectAffect-
dc.subjectatmosphere-
dc.subjectBourdieu-
dc.subjectHong Kong-
dc.subjectlawscape-
dc.titleTowards a criminology of atmospheres: Law, affect and the codes of the street-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailMatthews, D: danmat@hku.hk-
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dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1748895819874853-
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dc.identifier.hkuros306457-
dc.identifier.volume21-
dc.identifier.issue4-
dc.identifier.spage455-
dc.identifier.epage471-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000487342400001-
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom-
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