Yar, M and Tzanelli, R orcid.org/0000-0002-5765-9856 (2019) Kidnapping for Fun and Profit? Voluntary Abduction, Extreme Consumption and Self-Making in a Risk Society. Hospitality and Society, 9 (2). 1. pp. 105-124. ISSN 2042-7913
Abstract
This article explores the emerging phenomenon of ‘staged kidnapping’, a consumer-oriented experience in which individuals voluntarily subject themselves to abduction and associated experiences of detention, deprivation, interrogation and degradation. We explore the staging, presentation and consumption of voluntary abduction through an analysis of the online marketing and reporting of the phenomenon, to consider the ways new consumerist trends alter traditional notions of hospitality. We analyse the phenomenon’s emergence within the twin theoretical frames of Beck’s ‘risk society’ thesis and Lyng’s account of ‘voluntary risk-taking’ as a form of ‘edgework’. We argue that the framing and appeal of such experiences can be fruitfully located as an element in the reflexive production of the post-traditional self, a process that requires subjects to confront and manage (materially or symbolically) the conditions of risk and uncertainty that characterize contemporary inhospitable lifeworlds.
Metadata
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
Authors/Creators: |
|
Editors: |
|
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This article is protected by copyright. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Hospitality & Society. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | consumption; edgework; hospitality; kidnapping; risk; simulation |
Dates: |
|
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: | 11 Jun 2019 14:34 |
Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2020 00:41 |
Published Version: | https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/intellec... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Intellect |
Identification Number: | 10.1386/hosp.9.2.105_1 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:147107 |