There is growing interest in work on transgression, liminality and sub-cultural capital within cu... more There is growing interest in work on transgression, liminality and sub-cultural capital within cultural studies, sociology and the social sciences more broadly. However, there is a lack of understanding of the problem of alternativity: what it means to be alternative in culture and society in modernity. What 'alternative' looks like is often left unexplored. The alternative is either assumed un-problematically, or stands in for some other form of social and cultural exclusion. Alternativity delineates those spaces, scenes, sub-cultures, objects and practices in modern society that are actively designed to be counter or resistive to mainstream popular culture. Alternativity is associated with marginalization, both actively pursued by individuals, and imposed on individuals and sub-cultures. Alternativity was originally represented and constructed through acts of transgression and through shared sub-cultural capital. In contemporary society, alternative music scenes such as heavy metal, goth and punk have spread around the world; and alternative fashions and embodiment practices are now adopted by footballers and fashion models. The nature of alternativity as a communicative lifeworld is now questioned in an age of globalisation and hyper-commodification. This book series provides a stimulus to new research and new theorising on alternativity and marginalisation.
Street skateboarders are often excluded from public spaces with skating viewed as anti-social or ... more Street skateboarders are often excluded from public spaces with skating viewed as anti-social or uncivil. In this article, we argue that it can also be regarded as problematic as it interferes with the look and feel of cities as promoted by late-modern capitalism. The article contributes to an aesthetic criminology by arguing that street skateboarding is itself an aesthetic practice, but that this practice challenges the functionality and aesthetic order of the city. The article is supported by evidence from interviews with skateboarders in Manchester, UK. The context is the duel position of skateboarding, being regarded as both deviant and serious leisure (for instance, featuring for the first time in the Olympics in 2021). Rather than criminalizing and excluding skateboarders, it is argued that their aesthetic appreciation of public spaces could add value to city life, that they see and feel the city in ways that ought to add to our emotional and affective appreciation of what it ...
This article explores the relationship between music, memory and place, with specific reference t... more This article explores the relationship between music, memory and place, with specific reference to the centrality of the music of the Beatles, collective and individual, to the heritage industry in their birthplace, Liverpool. Since its emergence during the early 1980s, the cultural heritage sector in Liverpool has arguably relied heavily on its claim as the cradle of the genius of the Beatles, and it is thought in some quarters that more could be done to exploit this lucrative link. However, it is suggested here that causal links between the city of Liverpool and the inception and development of the Beatles are limited and tenuous, and, therefore, the (over-)reliance on the band by cultural regeneration professionals is based on a false claim. Further, it is argued that the Beatles story, as told and retold in this urban regeneration context, is a partial one which prioritizes some elements over others, mirroring the broader story of Liverpool as a heritage site. This article was p...
Music (and sound in general) may not seem to be an obvious choice for criminological consideratio... more Music (and sound in general) may not seem to be an obvious choice for criminological consideration, but there are promising areas of analysis in the relationship between sound, music, rights and harm . There are connections between music and crime beyond the obviously criminogenic ones of copyright and peerto-peer file sharing, for example, towards wider harms that can be scrutinized in the interplay of the state, state agents and corporations
Music as torture is a term which covers a range of harms associated with the systematic use of mu... more Music as torture is a term which covers a range of harms associated with the systematic use of music as a weapon. There are two main aspects to consider, ‘acoustic bombardment’ mostly used on the battlefield/zones of conflict and music as a technique of psychological torture undertaken for the purpose of breaking the victim's will.
Using a critical criminological approach, this book analyses what is deviant and transgressive ab... more Using a critical criminological approach, this book analyses what is deviant and transgressive about music, focusing on three main parts; the concept of ‘harmful’ or deviant music; the use of music as punishment and the censorship and silencing of music.
This thesis is concerned with young women's health and well-being, with a specific focus on y... more This thesis is concerned with young women's health and well-being, with a specific focus on young women's beliefs, behaviours and attitudes towards smoking, substance use, sexual health, diet and exercise and well-being. These issues are identified as priorities in 'The Health of the Nation: a Strategy for Health in England', (Department of Health, 1992). This document which was published by a previous (Conservative) government in July 1992,set objectives and targets relating to health status to be meet by the year 2000. (There are similar separate documents for both Wales and Scotland.) It identified five key areas for action: coronary heart disease and stroke; cancers; mental illness; HIV/AIDS and sexual health and accidents. Some of its targets apply specifically to young women. Informed by a feminist theory and using ethnographic and qualitative research techniques, this study examines young women's health-related beliefs and behaviours within the context of ...
In Tough Justice the authors ask how we should respond to children who break the law and whether ... more In Tough Justice the authors ask how we should respond to children who break the law and whether confinement in locked institutions really is the most effective way of dealing with these often damaged children? Tough Justice calls for the abolition of prison custody for children and its replacement with community-based programmes.
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 2014
ObjectiveThis study was conducted to test the ability of the St Louis County Department of Health... more ObjectiveThis study was conducted to test the ability of the St Louis County Department of Health to efficiently dispense medication to individuals with functional needs during a public health emergency and develop new guidelines for future emergency planning. Historically, people with functional needs have been vulnerable in emergency situations, and emergency planners are responsible for creating equal access for mass prophylaxis events.MethodsMeasures to create access for individuals with functional needs were tested in a countywide exercise in which 40 volunteers with functional needs walked through an open point of dispensing location to collect medication as if it were a real emergency. Actions were informed by representatives from the functional needs community in the St Louis area.ResultsDuring the exercise, medications were successfully dispensed to all participants. Many participants offered feedback for future program design.ConclusionsOutcomes indicated the importance of...
There has been an increasing focus from policymakers, academics and journalists on parents as the... more There has been an increasing focus from policymakers, academics and journalists on parents as the source of their child's antisocial behaviour both in and outside of the formal school setting. One intervention proffered is the parenting order. The language of parenting orders and parenting interventions obscures a distinct truth, that parenting orders are really mothering orders. This paper draws on findings generated during interviews with 26 parents attending a parenting education programme in a city in the north of England. This paper explores the gendered nature of parental education, in that the overwhelming majority of parents ordered by the courts to attend parenting classes are women. The paper explores mothers' experiences of receiving coercive parenting education, examines the reasons why mothers were given parenting orders and explores the nature of these mothers' relationships with their child's school.
EDITOR—Alderson and Goodey's article considers the different theoretical perspectives on the ... more EDITOR—Alderson and Goodey's article considers the different theoretical perspectives on the practical issue of consent.1 A study recently conducted by a multidisciplinary team at Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, supports the authors‘ assertion that consent is understood in different and sometimes conflicting ways by medical staff. A questionnaire asked preregistration house officers, senior house officers, and nurses from various specialties about training received in obtaining consent, training required, and important issues regarding consent. The questionnaire included vignettes or case studies …
There is growing interest in work on transgression, liminality and sub-cultural capital within cu... more There is growing interest in work on transgression, liminality and sub-cultural capital within cultural studies, sociology and the social sciences more broadly. However, there is a lack of understanding of the problem of alternativity: what it means to be alternative in culture and society in modernity. What 'alternative' looks like is often left unexplored. The alternative is either assumed un-problematically, or stands in for some other form of social and cultural exclusion. Alternativity delineates those spaces, scenes, sub-cultures, objects and practices in modern society that are actively designed to be counter or resistive to mainstream popular culture. Alternativity is associated with marginalization, both actively pursued by individuals, and imposed on individuals and sub-cultures. Alternativity was originally represented and constructed through acts of transgression and through shared sub-cultural capital. In contemporary society, alternative music scenes such as heavy metal, goth and punk have spread around the world; and alternative fashions and embodiment practices are now adopted by footballers and fashion models. The nature of alternativity as a communicative lifeworld is now questioned in an age of globalisation and hyper-commodification. This book series provides a stimulus to new research and new theorising on alternativity and marginalisation.
Street skateboarders are often excluded from public spaces with skating viewed as anti-social or ... more Street skateboarders are often excluded from public spaces with skating viewed as anti-social or uncivil. In this article, we argue that it can also be regarded as problematic as it interferes with the look and feel of cities as promoted by late-modern capitalism. The article contributes to an aesthetic criminology by arguing that street skateboarding is itself an aesthetic practice, but that this practice challenges the functionality and aesthetic order of the city. The article is supported by evidence from interviews with skateboarders in Manchester, UK. The context is the duel position of skateboarding, being regarded as both deviant and serious leisure (for instance, featuring for the first time in the Olympics in 2021). Rather than criminalizing and excluding skateboarders, it is argued that their aesthetic appreciation of public spaces could add value to city life, that they see and feel the city in ways that ought to add to our emotional and affective appreciation of what it ...
This article explores the relationship between music, memory and place, with specific reference t... more This article explores the relationship between music, memory and place, with specific reference to the centrality of the music of the Beatles, collective and individual, to the heritage industry in their birthplace, Liverpool. Since its emergence during the early 1980s, the cultural heritage sector in Liverpool has arguably relied heavily on its claim as the cradle of the genius of the Beatles, and it is thought in some quarters that more could be done to exploit this lucrative link. However, it is suggested here that causal links between the city of Liverpool and the inception and development of the Beatles are limited and tenuous, and, therefore, the (over-)reliance on the band by cultural regeneration professionals is based on a false claim. Further, it is argued that the Beatles story, as told and retold in this urban regeneration context, is a partial one which prioritizes some elements over others, mirroring the broader story of Liverpool as a heritage site. This article was p...
Music (and sound in general) may not seem to be an obvious choice for criminological consideratio... more Music (and sound in general) may not seem to be an obvious choice for criminological consideration, but there are promising areas of analysis in the relationship between sound, music, rights and harm . There are connections between music and crime beyond the obviously criminogenic ones of copyright and peerto-peer file sharing, for example, towards wider harms that can be scrutinized in the interplay of the state, state agents and corporations
Music as torture is a term which covers a range of harms associated with the systematic use of mu... more Music as torture is a term which covers a range of harms associated with the systematic use of music as a weapon. There are two main aspects to consider, ‘acoustic bombardment’ mostly used on the battlefield/zones of conflict and music as a technique of psychological torture undertaken for the purpose of breaking the victim's will.
Using a critical criminological approach, this book analyses what is deviant and transgressive ab... more Using a critical criminological approach, this book analyses what is deviant and transgressive about music, focusing on three main parts; the concept of ‘harmful’ or deviant music; the use of music as punishment and the censorship and silencing of music.
This thesis is concerned with young women's health and well-being, with a specific focus on y... more This thesis is concerned with young women's health and well-being, with a specific focus on young women's beliefs, behaviours and attitudes towards smoking, substance use, sexual health, diet and exercise and well-being. These issues are identified as priorities in 'The Health of the Nation: a Strategy for Health in England', (Department of Health, 1992). This document which was published by a previous (Conservative) government in July 1992,set objectives and targets relating to health status to be meet by the year 2000. (There are similar separate documents for both Wales and Scotland.) It identified five key areas for action: coronary heart disease and stroke; cancers; mental illness; HIV/AIDS and sexual health and accidents. Some of its targets apply specifically to young women. Informed by a feminist theory and using ethnographic and qualitative research techniques, this study examines young women's health-related beliefs and behaviours within the context of ...
In Tough Justice the authors ask how we should respond to children who break the law and whether ... more In Tough Justice the authors ask how we should respond to children who break the law and whether confinement in locked institutions really is the most effective way of dealing with these often damaged children? Tough Justice calls for the abolition of prison custody for children and its replacement with community-based programmes.
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 2014
ObjectiveThis study was conducted to test the ability of the St Louis County Department of Health... more ObjectiveThis study was conducted to test the ability of the St Louis County Department of Health to efficiently dispense medication to individuals with functional needs during a public health emergency and develop new guidelines for future emergency planning. Historically, people with functional needs have been vulnerable in emergency situations, and emergency planners are responsible for creating equal access for mass prophylaxis events.MethodsMeasures to create access for individuals with functional needs were tested in a countywide exercise in which 40 volunteers with functional needs walked through an open point of dispensing location to collect medication as if it were a real emergency. Actions were informed by representatives from the functional needs community in the St Louis area.ResultsDuring the exercise, medications were successfully dispensed to all participants. Many participants offered feedback for future program design.ConclusionsOutcomes indicated the importance of...
There has been an increasing focus from policymakers, academics and journalists on parents as the... more There has been an increasing focus from policymakers, academics and journalists on parents as the source of their child's antisocial behaviour both in and outside of the formal school setting. One intervention proffered is the parenting order. The language of parenting orders and parenting interventions obscures a distinct truth, that parenting orders are really mothering orders. This paper draws on findings generated during interviews with 26 parents attending a parenting education programme in a city in the north of England. This paper explores the gendered nature of parental education, in that the overwhelming majority of parents ordered by the courts to attend parenting classes are women. The paper explores mothers' experiences of receiving coercive parenting education, examines the reasons why mothers were given parenting orders and explores the nature of these mothers' relationships with their child's school.
EDITOR—Alderson and Goodey's article considers the different theoretical perspectives on the ... more EDITOR—Alderson and Goodey's article considers the different theoretical perspectives on the practical issue of consent.1 A study recently conducted by a multidisciplinary team at Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, supports the authors‘ assertion that consent is understood in different and sometimes conflicting ways by medical staff. A questionnaire asked preregistration house officers, senior house officers, and nurses from various specialties about training received in obtaining consent, training required, and important issues regarding consent. The questionnaire included vignettes or case studies …
Uploads
Papers by Eleanor Peters