The eventization of leisure and the strange death of alternative Leeds

Karl Spracklen, Anna Richter and Beverley Spracklen

City, 2013, vol. 17, issue 2, 164-178

Abstract: The communicative potential of city spaces as leisure spaces is a central assumption of political activism and the creation of alternative, counter-cultural and subcultural scenes. However, such potential for city spaces is limited by the gentrification, privatization and eventization of city centres in the wake of wider societal and cultural struggles over leisure, work and identity formation. In this paper, we present research on alternative scenes in the city of Leeds to argue that the eventization of the city centre has led to a marginalization and of alternative scenes on the fringes of the city. Such marginalization has not caused the death of alternative Leeds or political activism associated with those scenes-but it has changed the leisure spaces (physical, political and social) in which alternative scenes contest the mainstream.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.765120

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