Phil Hadfield

• PhD (Durham); M.Phil (Cantab); BA(Hons) 1st Keele
• Managing Director at www.philhadfield.co.uk

England and Wales have experienced a decade of transformation concerning the legislative governance of urban public drinking spaces, yet the Evening and Night-time Economy (ENTE) retains its position at the top of ‘community safety’ agendas. This article reflects upon our research on alcohol law enforcement. We explore how some alcohol laws are ill...

This article presents commentary and analysis on the Urban Studies special collection on the night-time city. The collection highlights burgeoning interest in the urban night from across the social sciences and helps consolidate what might be referred to as the ‘third wave’ of research on the evening and night-time economy (ENTE). The collection ad...

In recent years, the expansion of night-time leisure has emerged as a key indicator of post-industrial urban prosperity, attracting investment, creating employment and re-generating the built environment. These leisure economies are youth-dominated, focusing upon the sale and consumption of alcohol. Unprecedented numbers of young people now flock t...

This chapter considers how the work of Goffman can be understood in terms of its affinity with certain tenets of existentialist thought, notably in the work of Sartre. Sartre’s descriptions of ‘Bad Faith’ speak of personal identity as being constructed through forms of performativity that have certain parallels with Goffman’s dramaturgical model of...

This article considers recent policing and regulatory responses to the night-time economy in England and Wales. Drawing upon the findings of a broader two-year qualitative investigation of local and national developments in alcohol policy, it identifies a dramatic acceleration of statutory activity, with 12 new or revised powers, and several more i...

Los primeros estudios sobre las discotecas se centraban en la identificación de la cultura de discoteca con el espíritu PAUR de «paz, amor, unidad y respeto» y en una definición polarizada de los contextos nocturnos: por un lado discotecas comerciales e interesadas en fomentar el consumo de alcohol, que ofrecían música pop «del montón», y por otro...

Este número presenta las perspectivas de los editores invitados en esta colección resumiendo parte de los temas generales de una selección de trabajos presentados en el Congreso Club Health 2008, celebrado en Ibiza (España). Se da especial importancia al valor de los enfoques comparativos en los estudios sobre clubs, la cultura juvenil y el consumo...

This paper considers licensing as a governmental tool for controlling crime and disorder in the night-time economy while simultaneously shaping that economy's social mores. Using recent contrasting examples from the English and Welsh experience – the regulation of live music events and lap dancing – the paper shows how licensing frameworks endorse...

The work of the Slovak Wildlife Society (SWS) focuses on the protection of Europe's three largest predators - the brown bear, wolf and lynx. The project works with rural stakeholders to prevent the carnivores' killing of livestock and habituation to human food sources, whilst winning hearts and minds.

Los primeros estudios sobre las discotecas se centraban en la identificación de la cultura de discoteca con el espíritu PAUR de «paz, amor, unidad y respeto» y en una definición polarizada de los contextos nocturnos: por un lado discotecas comerciales e interesadas en fomentar el consumo de alcohol, que ofrecían música pop «del montón», y por otro...

In England and Wales, certain forms of violent crime, criminal damage, and antisocial behaviour have long been concentrated in and around nightlife areas. This may be regarded as a by-product of the intensity of leisure activity in these particular times and spaces, as well as the youthful socio-demographic composition of the nightlife population....

Canada and the Nordic countries (Finland and to a lesser extent Norway and Sweden) dominated some types of alcohol research as a result of the research organizations that flourished in those countries. On the other hand, there were few alcohol researchers in the UK, France, Italy, or Spain. Whilst a substantial amount of funding was available in th...

It’s a balmy summer night and I’m on my way home from the pub as I catch a snippet of hope and lament, ‘forget about him, you can do better’. Just ahead of me, two girls in their early twenties are stumbling arm-in-arm along the pavement. As the distance between us shortens, the legs of one of the pair buckle and she falls momentarily to the ground...

Nightlife and Crime is a collection of scholarly reports on crime and disorder in the Night Time Economies (NTEs) of 17 countries. This innovative volume provides an outward looking and international perspective on the area in an accessible and thought-provoking style. The issues raised in Nightlife and Crime go the heart of contemporary debates on...

In Britain today, if you are in the business of fighting crime, then you have to be in the business of dealing with alcohol. 'Binge drinking' culture is intrinsic to urban leisure and has come to pose a key threat to public order. Unsurprisingly, a struggle is occurring. Pub and club companies, local authorities, central government, the police, the...

This editorial presents the views of the guest editors of this collection in summarising some of the general themes arising from a selection of papers presented at the 2008 Club Health Conference in Ibiza, Spain. Particular emphasis is placed upon the value of comparative approaches to club studies, youth culture and substance use so that researche...

Early Club Studies emphasised the inclusiveness of club cultures and the PLUR ethos of 'peace, love, unity and respect' alongside a polarised characterisation of nightlife contexts, as either commercial, alcohol-oriented nightclubs offering 'mainstream' pop music, or 'authentic'/'alternative' underground dance clubs associated with widespread illic...

Drawn from an ethnographic investigation of Central London's contemporary nightclub scene, this paper seeks to map previously obscure elements of the private governance of ‘security' and the wider network of ‘nodes' which govern Britain's night-time economy (NTE). Attention to the constitution and operation of nodes and the interfaces between them...

In Britain today, if you are in the business of fighting crime, then you have to be in the business of dealing with alcohol. ‘Binge drinking’ culture is intrinsic to urban leisure and has come to pose a key threat to public order. Unsurprisingly, a struggle is occurring. Pub and club companies, local authorities, central government, the police, the...

In Britain today, if you are in the business of fighting crime, then you have to be in the business of dealing with alcohol. ‘Binge drinking’ culture is intrinsic to urban leisure and has come to pose a key threat to public order. Unsurprisingly, a struggle is occurring. Pub and club companies, local authorities, central government, the police, the...

In Britain today, if you are in the business of fighting crime, then you have to be in the business of dealing with alcohol. ‘Binge drinking’ culture is intrinsic to urban leisure and has come to pose a key threat to public order. Unsurprisingly, a struggle is occurring. Pub and club companies, local authorities, central government, the police, the...

In Britain today, if you are in the business of fighting crime, then you have to be in the business of dealing with alcohol. ‘Binge drinking’ culture is intrinsic to urban leisure and has come to pose a key threat to public order. Unsurprisingly, a struggle is occurring. Pub and club companies, local authorities, central government, the police, the...

In Britain today, if you are in the business of fighting crime, then you have to be in the business of dealing with alcohol. ‘Binge drinking’ culture is intrinsic to urban leisure and has come to pose a key threat to public order. Unsurprisingly, a struggle is occurring. Pub and club companies, local authorities, central government, the police, the...

In Britain today, if you are in the business of fighting crime, then you have to be in the business of dealing with alcohol. ‘Binge drinking’ culture is intrinsic to urban leisure and has come to pose a key threat to public order. Unsurprisingly, a struggle is occurring. Pub and club companies, local authorities, central government, the police, the...

In Britain today, if you are in the business of fighting crime, then you have to be in the business of dealing with alcohol. ‘Binge drinking’ culture is intrinsic to urban leisure and has come to pose a key threat to public order. Unsurprisingly, a struggle is occurring. Pub and club companies, local authorities, central government, the police, the...

In Britain today, if you are in the business of fighting crime, then you have to be in the business of dealing with alcohol. ‘Binge drinking’ culture is intrinsic to urban leisure and has come to pose a key threat to public order. Unsurprisingly, a struggle is occurring. Pub and club companies, local authorities, central government, the police, the...

In Britain today, if you are in the business of fighting crime, then you have to be in the business of dealing with alcohol. ‘Binge drinking’ culture is intrinsic to urban leisure and has come to pose a key threat to public order. Unsurprisingly, a struggle is occurring. Pub and club companies, local authorities, central government, the police, the...

In Britain today, if you are in the business of fighting crime, then you have to be in the business of dealing with alcohol. ‘Binge drinking’ culture is intrinsic to urban leisure and has come to pose a key threat to public order. Unsurprisingly, a struggle is occurring. Pub and club companies, local authorities, central government, the police, the...

The development of alcohol-based night-time economies as part of government-sponsored post-industrial urban regeneration involves two interconnected political and economic processes. The first is the shift to a consumer economy, and the second is the movement within local governance from the provision of services towards a focus upon nurturing econ...

This paper focuses upon the emergence of the night-time economy both materially and culturally as a powerful manifestation of post-industrial society. This emergence features two key processes: firstly a shift in economic development from the industrial to the post-industrial; secondly a significant orientation of urban governance involving a move...

This paper explores the working practices, occupational culture, regulation and training of bouncers within the context of the burgeoning night-time leisure economies of Britain's post-industrial towns and cities. We argue that within these quasi-liminal urban spaces, mass intoxication, aggressive hedonism and disorder have become routine, whilst,...

This paper examines the scope, structure and impact of the occupational licensing systems designed to increase the legal accountability of licensed premise security personnel — better known as `bouncers'. Much vilified for a perceived association with high levels of violence, this form of private security now dominates the systems of social control...

This paper seeks to address some of the pragmatic and ethical issues encountered when researching violence. We seek through reference to our own work and to the work of others to highlight the inevitability of these problems and to suggest that dealing with them is instrinsic to the sociological enterprise.

This paper focuses upon the emergence of the night-time economy both materially and culturally as a powerful manifestation of post-industrial society. This emergence features two key processes: firstly a shift in economic development from the industrial to the post-industrial; secondly a significant orientation of urban governance involving a move...