Boy racer culture : youth, masculinity and deviance /

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On the public roads boy racers are a foreboding presence, viewed with suspicion and derision by the 'respectable' motorist. The problem of the young (male) driver is one which has plagued authorities and governments due to youths' acclaimed propensity to engage in deviant and dangerou...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lumsden, Karen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxon : Routledge, 2013.
Series:Routledge advances in ethnography ; 2.
Subjects:
Teenage automobile drivers > Scotland > Aberdeen.
Masculinity > Scotland > Aberdeen.
Automobiles > Social aspects > Scotland > Aberdeen.
Jeunes automobilistes > Écosse > Aberdeen.
Masculinité > Écosse > Aberdeen.
Automobiles > Aspect social > Écosse > Aberdeen.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Social Aspects.
Automobiles > Social aspects
Masculinity
Teenage automobile drivers
Scotland > Aberdeen
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: rebels of the road
  • Car cultures and deviance
  • Setting the scene : the history of aberdeen's boy racers
  • Fuelling the panic : societal concern and media images of the boy racer
  • The politics of the road : policing, governing and educating the boy racer
  • "We're not boy racers but they are" : the stickiness of labels
  • Rites of the road : "modding", subcultural media and public performances
  • Gendered interactions in the boy racer culture
  • Conclusion: contested realities.

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