IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/cityxx/v17y2013i2p164-178.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The eventization of leisure and the strange death of alternative Leeds

Author

Listed:
  • Karl Spracklen
  • Anna Richter
  • Beverley Spracklen

Abstract

The communicative potential of city spaces as leisure spaces is a central assumption of political activism and the creation of alternative, counter-cultural and subcultural scenes. However, such potential for city spaces is limited by the gentrification, privatization and eventization of city centres in the wake of wider societal and cultural struggles over leisure, work and identity formation. In this paper, we present research on alternative scenes in the city of Leeds to argue that the eventization of the city centre has led to a marginalization and of alternative scenes on the fringes of the city. Such marginalization has not caused the death of alternative Leeds or political activism associated with those scenes-but it has changed the leisure spaces (physical, political and social) in which alternative scenes contest the mainstream.

Suggested Citation

  • Karl Spracklen & Anna Richter & Beverley Spracklen, 2013. "The eventization of leisure and the strange death of alternative Leeds," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(2), pages 164-178, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:2:p:164-178
    DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.765120
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.765120
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/13604813.2013.765120?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:2:p:164-178. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/CCIT20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.