Life and Strife in the Urban Night: Consumerism, Emotionality and Harm in the Night-time Economy

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Owen Hodgkinson (Staffordshire University) Mark Bushell (Northumbria University)

Life and Strife in the Urban Night

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Consumerism, Emotionality and Harm in the Night-time Economy

Owen Hodgkinson (Staffordshire University), Mark Bushell (Northumbria University)

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Bristol University Press
30 June 2026

Consumerism; Urban communities; Crime & criminology

This book offers a vivid, critical exploration of young adults’ experiences of the contemporary night-time economy, drawing on rich ethnographic research from Stoke-on-Trent. Adopting recent conceptual advancements in ultra-realism, critical criminology and psychoanalytic theory, it examines how young people navigate relationships, substance use, violence and consumer culture through their night-time leisure rituals.

Advancing our understanding of social harm, the book also exposes the deeper political-economic forces that shape youth behaviours, identity and the many corrosive subjectivities that have flourished under late neoliberal capitalism. Engaging with timely concerns around mental health, individualism and the nature of desire, the book provides a powerful theoretical and empirical contribution to contemporary criminology and sociology.

By: Owen Hodgkinson (Staffordshire University), Mark Bushell (Northumbria University)
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9781529245738
ISBN 10: 1529245737
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 30 June 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Owen Hodgkinson is an independent social researcher based in the North Midlands, UK Mark Bushell is Assistant Professor in Criminology and Sociology at Northumbria University.

Reviews for Life and Strife in the Urban Night: Consumerism, Emotionality and Harm in the Night-time Economy

'Hodgkinson and Bushell have produced an unflinching ethnography of Britain’s ‘post-leisure’ night time economy. Drawing on cutting edge ultra-realist theory, this is a stark and unsettling account of desire and disillusion in the urban night.' Oliver Smith, University of Plymouth