Sébastien TutengesLund University | LU · Department of Sociology
Sébastien Tutenges
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Drawing on data generated through quantitative and qualitative methods, this article explores the prevalence and experiences of substance use, casual sex, commercial sex and health problems among young Danish tourists at an international nightlife resort in Bulgaria. The article argues that the risks the tourists take should not be interpreted as a...
Based on interviews with 104 young partygoers, this article examines sexual assaults that occur in the context of festive events. Focus is on how individuals describe their sexual victimization. Three experiential characteristics stand out in the victims’ accounts. First, the assaults are described as being characterized by an altered state of cons...
For two decades, Sébastien Tutenges has conducted research in bars, nightclubs, festivals, drug dens, nightlife resorts, and underground dance parties in a quest to answer a fundamental question: Why do people across cultures gather regularly to intoxicate themselves?
Vivid and at times deeply personal, this book offers new insights into a wide va...
Research on the new crime-terror nexus has focused on examining the confluences of criminal and jihadist milieus. This article contributes to this research, using insights from criminological theory and analyzing data from interviews with Muslim men who have been exposed to jihadism and have a background in street life and crime. We propose that th...
This chapter offers advice on how to conduct phenomenological ethnographic research in nightlife settings such as bars, nightclubs, and music festivals. It argues that phenomenological ethnography focuses on studying experiences as they occur to the people living them. Phenomenological ethnographers use their bodies as research instruments to devel...
Many studies have examined why individuals with a background in street life and crime are drawn toward extremism. This paper examines why most people with this background reject extremism. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Oslo, we found that Muslims involved in street culture were generally opposed to jihadism because they perceived jihadists as...
The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice provides critical and current reviews of key research topics, issues, and debates that crime ethnographers have been grappling with for over a century. Despite its long and distinguished history in the social sciences, ethnographies in criminology are still relatively rare. Over the...
This chapter explores a key facet of liminal situations, namely the temporary modification, inversion, or suspension of conventional moral standards in circumstances deemed exceptional. Borrowing from William James, we refer to this state or process as “moral holidays,” a concept that we use in combination with Émile Durkheim’s notion of “collectiv...
This paper calls for renewed consideration of the way research subjects are selected in the study of subcultures. All too often, subcultural researchers limit themselves to the use of one or two of the orthodox sampling designs, such as ‘convenience sampling’ (selecting subjects who are readily available) or ‘chain referral sampling’ (selecting a r...
Drinking stories feature widely in Western societies. Many people eagerly share their stories in the aftermath of drinking events. These stories are also common in books, movies, music and the media. Based on qualitative interviews with 104 young Norwegian heavy episodic drinkers, the article seeks to establish drinking stories as a distinct narrat...
De som kommer til orde i denne boka er den moderate majoriteten av unge norske muslimer. De reflekterer om deres personlige tro, religiøse praksis, gruppetilhørigheter og særlig om synet de har på ekstreme bevegelser.
Slik får vi en rikere forståelse av den motstanden mot jihadisme som er vanlig blant norske muslimer - omfanget, styrken, grunnene...
Humor is essential to social life, but it is often overlooked in the study of crime and other social problems. We introduce and make use of humor theory, emphasizing the theories of superiority and relief. Based on interviews with incarcerated men, we demonstrate how humor is used to criticize authorities, for self-aggrandizement, and to alleviate...
Background:
In this study, we use assemblage theory to investigate the link between alcohol use and one-night stands.
Methods:
The data come from qualitative interviews conducted with 104 young participants in the night-time economy.
Results:
We show that: (i) alcohol-fuelled sexual explorations (e.g. erotic fantasizing, flirting and sex) are...
Most Western countries have laws that prohibit the serving of alcohol to intoxicated and underage patrons in nightlife venues such as pubs and nightclubs. Despite laws and the implementation of server training programs, several studies have shown that intoxicated patrons are still likely to be served. This think-piece article attempts to shed new l...
This article contributes to the research on trust in policing by examining how private security actors (bouncers) experience the police as a partner in informal policing networks emerging as part of the ‘war on bikers and gangs’ in Danish nightlife. While much international research about partnership policing has employed a police perspective and a...
Every year, millions of young people travel away from home to party for days or weeks on end in permissive environments, such as music festivals, dance parties, and nightlife resorts. The studies that have been conducted on these extended youth parties have focused primarily on specific risk-taking behaviors, such as drug use and violence. Here, we...
Drawing on the classical crowd theories of Tarde, Le Bon, Durkheim, and Canetti, this article examines pub crawl crowds at the Bulgarian nightlife resort, Sunny Beach. The article argues that there are elements in classical crowd theory which can be used to advance the current research on tourist crowds such as those at pub crawls. The main strengt...
Purpose
– Over the last decade a substantial pool of research has emerged on bouncers and their influence on the safety conditions in nightlife environments. Comparatively little, however, has been written on bouncers themselves and their working conditions. The purpose of this paper is to identify the perceived risks, stress and other work-related...
Violence features in human life, not only as actual physical confrontation but also as stories. Stories of violence are particularly
important in violence-prone subcultures and among those partaking in the illegal drug economy. Drawing on narrative analysis,
this study examines stories of violence among a population of incarcerated Norwegian drug d...
Aims: The high prevalence of illegal drug use among rave party attendees and the emerging Goa trance scene in Belgium are the main impetus for assessing perceived harm reduction strategies among Goa party visitors. Insights into this question can contribute to our understanding of contemporary underground drug cultures and help to identify potentia...
When British youth spend holiday abroad, they tend to engage in increased consumption of alcohol, drugs, violence and unprotected sex - collectively known as 'risk' behaviours. While numerous epidemiological studies have documented the extent of these risk behaviours in places like the Balearic Islands, few have taken a phenomenological approach wi...
Prevention is one of four core research areas at the Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research at Aarhus University in Denmark. This paper provides an overview of the prevention research which has been carried out at the Centre since its establishment in the beginning of the 1990s. Based on a review of all past and ongoing preventive research projects a...
There is evidence that bartenders play a key role in respect of the health and safety of patrons in nightlife environments. However, little is known of how bartenders themselves are affected by the environments in which they work, especially with regard to their exposure to violence, pressure to drink and stress. We used a cross-sectional survey to...
There is growing evidence that young tourists at nightlife resorts have a propensity
for risk-taking. Based on ethnographic fieldwork at an international nightlife
resort in Bulgaria, this article examines how guides help tourists lower their
inhibitions and reach states of collective effervescence. Focus is on young
guides and tourists from Denmar...
Aims: To study the characteristics, contexts and implications of drinking stories among young drinkers. Methods: Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted among Danish youth at a beach resort in Bulgaria. The fieldwork included three months of participant observation and 45 semi-structured interviews with a total of 104 tourists and 11 guides. The parti...
Objective:
The aim of this study was to assess how participation in party activities with guides affects alcohol consumption among young tourists at an international nightlife resort.
Methods:
Prospective survey of 112 Danish tourists in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria, who were asked about their drinking and activities with guides on three separate night...
Background
Heavy drinking and drug use is increasingly recognised as a problem in relation to holidays at nightlife resorts. However, studies conducted on the subject to date have relied on retrospective accounts of drinking, and little is known about the course of drinking, consequences and experiences during such holidays.
Methods
A prospective...
Purpose
This article aims to determine the prevalence of substance use among young festival‐goers and the associations between preferences for different types of music and recent use of different types of licit and illicit drugs.
Design/methodology/approach
The article is based on a cross‐sectional survey of 1,787 young adults attending a music fe...
Purpose – This article aims to determine the prevalence of substance use among young festival-goers
and the associations between preferences for different types of music and recent use of different types
of licit and illicit drugs.
Design/methodology/approach – The article is based on a cross-sectional survey of 1,787
young adults attending a music...
Background: People travelling abroad tend to increase their use of alcohol and other drugs. In the present study we describe organized party activities in connection with young tourists' drinking, and the differences between young people travelling with and without organized party activities.
Purpose – This article aims to offer an ethnographic account of substances and sex and how they are interrelated in the context of one holiday destination popular among British youth. Current research on British youth abroad and their use of substances is based almost exclusively on survey methods. Similarly, the same research works do not explore,...
Aim: In western countries, the most prevalent type of illicit substance-use dependence is cannabis dependence. This study aimed at estimating the prevalence of cannabis dependence among music festival visitors. Methods: Based on a survey of 380 music festival guests, we estimated the prevalence of cannabis dependence, as defined by a score of 3 or...
Little is known about young adults’ use of strip clubs and prostitution during their holidays abroad. This study examined this issue with a sample of 1125 Danish tourists between the ages of 16 and 34, and sought data about the frequency with which they paid for sex and attended strip clubs while they were on holiday. The tourists were surveyed at...
There is growing evidence that young tourists at nightlife resorts have a propensity for risk-taking. Based on ethnographic fieldwork at an international nightlife resort in Bulgaria, this article examines how guides help tourists lower their inhibitions and reach states of collective effervescence. Focus is on young guides and tourists from Denmar...
Music festivals are known to attract a high proportion of drug users.
Using a survey of 1,772 visitors at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark, we assessed substance use at the festival, the incidence of use of substances among never-users and the incidence of use among lifetime users who had not used a substance in the past 12 months.
New onset of tob...
To investigate predictors of hangover during a week of heavy drinking in young adults. Design Observational prospective study.
A total of 112 young Danish tourists were interviewed on three occasions during their holiday. They completed the Acute Hangover Scale and answered questions about their alcohol consumption and rest duration. The incidence...
Reference: Tutenges, S. (2010). Louder! Wilder! Danish Youth at an International nightlife resort. Copenhagen: Department of Sociology, Copenhagen University.
Since the 1960s, nightlife tourism has grown rapidly and is today an orgiastic institution of massive proportions. Each year during “Spring Break”, hundreds of thousands of North American c...
Sex and drinking go hand-in-hand in Western societies. Men also tend to report more sexual disinhibition under the influence of alcohol and drugs than women. At a vacation resort, we conducted a survey of young men and women regarding self-reported alcohol-related sexual disinhibition (ARSD), and we administered the Drinking-Induced Disinhibition S...
Drinking stories are immensely popular among contemporary Danish youth. The stories are shared with much enthusiasm in school, at parties, over the telephone and via the Internet. But why are the young so compelled by these seemingly vulgar stories? Applying the theories of, most importantly, Bakhtin (1968), Ricoeur (1991), and Jackson (2002), this...
The use of alcohol and drugs among youth from a number of North European countries has changed significantly since the early 1990s: there are signs of increased drug use and of growing sessional consumption of alcohol. Hence a number of researchers have argued that a new culture of intoxication is emerging which is centered around the pursuit of in...
Little is known about predictors of hangover symptoms. The subjective experience of the "night out" may influence the experience of hangover symptoms. We conducted a survey of 325 young men and women at a vacation resort during the daytime, administering subjects the Acute Hangover Scale (AHS) and asking questions about drinking and behaviors the n...
Vacations at international nightlife resorts represent an important but also risky element in the lives of youth in many countries. There is an urgent need for evaluating the role played by bars and nightclubs in producing and reducing risks; this task is important, especially at upcoming nightlife resorts with limited experience in managing young...
People travelling abroad tend to increase their use of alcohol and other drugs. In the present study we describe organized party activities in connection with young tourists' drinking, and the differences between young people travelling with and without organized party activities.
We conducted ethnographic observations and a cross-sectional survey...
The aim of this study was to compare the patterns of substance use in young Danes while holidaying in the Bulgarian holiday resort of Sunny Beach (SB) to their patterns of substance use in Denmark.
Data were collected from visitors to SB in 2007 (n = 1011). Information on alcohol and drug use was surveyed using a short questionnaire. Findings: Most...
This article is an anthropological case study of a bacchanalian club called Gold n’ Metal. The aim is to arrive at a set of analytical concepts that may be used to describe the state of intoxication as it is
lived out among the members of Gold n’ Metal and among Ringsted youth at large.
A leitmotif in the article is the phenomenological advice that...
Projects
Projects (2)
The primary objective is to understand the social and cultural processes behind jihadist radicalization in Norway. This will be studied in three different arenas: on the Internet, among individuals involved in street culture, and in the Muslim youth population.
The secondary objective is to get an overview of and insight into cultural counterstrategies and effective counter narratives in the young Muslim population.
The main research questions in the project are:
1) What characterizes jihadist cultural style and online jihadist radicalization?
2) What is the relationship between street culture and the jihadist subculture?
3) How do young Muslims oppose radical jihadist organizations narratively, and what renders them resistant to supporting and joining them?
