Coleman, S. orcid.org/0000-0001-9571-4759 and Brogden, J. (2023) Burned Out: A Visual and Lyrical Sociology of Smoking in the City. In: Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology, Part B. Research in Urban Sociology, 18B . Emerald , Bingley, UK , pp. 103-123. ISBN 9781804556337
Abstract
This chapter explores a common, but typically overlooked urban practice: smoking outside the workplace. This activity is analysed as an attempt to create marginal spaces of brief retreat from the acceleration and agitation of the workplace. By talking to smokers about what drives them into the street, and capturing smokers photographically, we discover that these people are seeking moments of breakaway from the dominating involvement of the commercial city. The practices we observe in this chapter are typical of what Erving Goffman refers to as ‘away’ activities: strategies for briefly escaping from the absorption of all-consuming social situations. We conclude by asking whether these urban pauses could be stretched to a point where they challenge the compulsion of the overwrought rhythmic order of the capitalist city.
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Item Type: | Book Section |
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Keywords: | Smoking, Workplace, Street, Pause, Involvement, Goffman |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2024 14:40 |
Last Modified: | 05 Jul 2024 10:39 |
Published Version: | https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.110... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Emerald |
Series Name: | Research in Urban Sociology |
Identification Number: | 10.1108/s1047-00422023000018b004 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:214418 |