Tzanelli, R orcid.org/0000-0002-5765-9856 Dark leisure: The gendered and racialised experiences of kidnapping in contemporary capitalism. In: CEMORE, Lancaster University, Independent Scholar Visit Seminar, 15 Feb 2018, Lancaster University.
Abstract
The presentation focuses on the design of staged kidnapping packages: packages provided to prospective clients/adventurous consumers of fear, who are voluntarily subjected to kidnapping and captivity by professional artists/kidnappers working for this emerging industry of theatrical terror. The purchase of such ‘experiences’ by Western individuals suggests their interpellation as ‘extreme’ leisure within a broader tendency of contemporary capitalism to co-opt and commoditise terror and suffering. I discuss how the ecological aesthetics and terror atmospheres involved in the staging of such ‘confrontations’ with uncertainty are designed as inherently white, Western, Eurocentric and masculine. In particular, I interrogate the meaningful absences and/or presences of gender and race in this paradoxical leisure activity as an entrenched feature of the ways racial and gendered identities are mobilised and circulated in global markets as ‘objects’.
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Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | These presentation slides are the author's copy of the presentation, "Dark leisure: The gendered and racialised experiences of kidnapping in contemporary capitalism", presented at the Centre For Mobilities Research, University of Lancaster on 15 February 2018. |
Keywords: | aesthetic capitalism, consumption, dark tourism, edgework |
Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 26 Mar 2018 16:29 |
Last Modified: | 26 Mar 2018 16:29 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:127914 |