Westminsterresearch Regulating Nightlife
WestminsterResearch http://www.westminster.ac.uk/westminsterresearch Regulating nightlife, policing race: a critical exploration of public and private policing in a non-metropolitan setting Wicks, N. This is an electronic version of a PhD thesis awarded by the University of Westminster. © Miss Nikhaela Wicks, 2021. The WestminsterResearch online digital archive at the University of Westminster aims to make the research output of the University available to a wider audience. Copyright and Moral Rights remain with the authors and/or copyright owners. Regulating nightlife, policing race: a critical exploration of public and private policing in a non-metropolitan setting. Nikhaela Wicks Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Awarded by Westminster University, UK April 2021 Abstract This thesis draws attention to the ways in which nightlife is constructed along white, local norms by those who have a responsibility for governing and managing nightlife. Situated within ‘Greenshire’, one of London’s home counties, this thesis draws upon direct observations and interviews with police officers, door staff, venue managers, police and local authority licensing officers and street pastors. The research contextualises understandings of race within the broader move from race to diversity, as exemplified by the Equality Act (2010), and supplemented by diversity training programmes and agendas put in place by many police forces across the UK. This thesis identifies several key findings. The language of diversity, and not race, operates to deny racism in the present and place racism in the past. Narrow understandings of racism as language, defined by what is said rather than what is done, and as a negative character trait, serve to reconstruct the police organisation as not institutionally racist.
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