Urban exploration: from subterranea to spectacle
Recreational trespass or ‘urban exploration’ (UE) is the practice of researching, gaining access to and documenting forbidden, forgotten or otherwise off-limits places, including abandoned buildings, construction sites and infrastructure systems. Over the past two decades, a global subculture has co...
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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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2017
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The British journal of criminology
Jahr: 2017, Band: 57, Heft: 4, Seiten: 982-1001 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Recreational trespass or ‘urban exploration’ (UE) is the practice of researching, gaining access to and documenting forbidden, forgotten or otherwise off-limits places, including abandoned buildings, construction sites and infrastructure systems. Over the past two decades, a global subculture has coalesced around this activity. More recently, however, the practice has begun to transform along divergent lines. The aims of the present article are three-fold: first, to bring UE and its emergent variants to the attention of a criminological audience; second, to interrogate increasingly spectacular visual representations of UE and attendant processes of commodification; and third, to introduce the rhizome as a way of thinking about urban social formations, their development and appropriation. |
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ISSN: | 1464-3529 |
DOI: | 10.1093/bjc/azw045 |