RT Article
T1 ‘I’d say it’s around me’: Introducing field analysis into bouncer ethnography – the case of a Czech city
JF European journal of criminology
VO 15
IS 3
SP 364
OP 382
A1 Kupka, Petr 1985-
A2 Šmíd, Tomáš 1979-
A2 Walach, Vaclav
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/158007426X
AB Bouncers have recently attracted the interest of criminologists, some of whom have utilized Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts to grasp the sociocultural realities of bouncing. The present study continues this line of enquiry, aiming to demonstrate that bouncer ethnography will benefit from yet another of Bourdieu’s concepts, that of the field. A study of bouncers in a Czech city is utilized to argue that (1) field analysis is a valuable analytical framework for ethnographic research in this context, (2) it allows relationships both among bouncers and between them and other relevant agents to be explored, (3) it has the potential to investigate these relationships without criminalizing them, and (4) it provides a framework for comparative studies of bouncing in different contexts.
K1 Bouncers
K1 Bourdieusian criminology
K1 Ethnography
K1 Field analysis,
K1 Organized crime
K1 Bourdieu, Pierre
DO 10.1177/1477370817739620