Carnage! Coming to a town near you? Nightlife, uncivilised behaviour and the carnivalesque body

Leisure Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 265-282

  Hubbard, Phil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

carnivalesque bodies; civility; embodiment; leisure spaces; night time economy; students

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL EXCLUSION; SOCIAL INCLUSION; STUDENT; TOURISM; TOURIST BEHAVIOR;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84879508903     PISSN: 02614367     EISSN: 14664496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2011.633616     Document Type: Article

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