Laura Fenton
Biographic Data
| ID | 260397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Fenton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Fenton |
| SIGNATURE | FENTON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8747-9960 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Harms and Health Inequalities in the Night-Time Economy: A Qualitative Exploration of Professional Stakeholders’ Experiences and Explanations
Goods and services consumed in the night-time economy (NTE) are associated with adverse health outcomes. These outcomes are more prevalent in areas with greater deprivation and among minoritized population subgroups. This study was aimed at exploring the views of local authority stakeholders on the harms and health inequalities in the NTE. We focused on inequalities from alcohol and gambling, their relationship with the NTE and how different form…
From foreclosure to potentiality
Intersecting stigmas: How racial attitudes shape support for treatment and harm reduction for people who inject drugs
Austere life-courses and foreclosed futures: A relational geographical approach to work, housing, and family across austerity Europe
This article seeks to advance geographical understandings of the impact of austerity on young adults in Europe and particularly on their social, relational, and temporal sense of the future. We adopt a life-course perspective to theorise personal, generational, institutional, and social change in relation to one another. Firstly, we progress relational life-course perspectives in human geography to illustrate how place-based experiences of auster…
The (im)mobilities of Covid-19 in later life: Burning and Building Generational Bridges
The COVID-19 pandemic foregrounded a numerical conception of age. Many of the targets of proposals to introduce age-specific restrictions are members of the ‘baby boomer’ generation, a generation that is widely recognised as having a youthful approach to ageing. Attending to arguments that baby boomers are a ‘bridging’ generation – i.e. they share cultural orientations with both preceding and succeeding generations – we argue that ‘bridging’ is a…
A synthesis of explanations for spatial inequalities in gambling harm: Integrating Social and Material Dimensions of Place
Place matters for understanding patterns of gambling harm as shown by the spatial clustering of both 'vulnerable' people and gambling outlets. Harms are experienced at a community level (and never restricted to individuals) and are spread unequally across communities of place. Following the liberalisation of gambling laws in the UK in the 1990s, gambling outlets and advertising have proliferated in many economically disadvantaged places, with the…
Mother’s ruin? The relational alcohol consumption practices and experiences of mothers and their teenage and young adult children
Geographies of alcohol and generation: Examining the decline in youth drinking in England through a spatial lens
Introducing 'resonance: Revisioning the relationship between youth and later life in women born 1939-52
This article proposes 'resonance' as a fruitful way of conceptualising the relationship between youth and later life and reflecting on its significance: resonance is how a person's 'youth' is lived with in the present of their later life. Resonance revisions youth, engaging with the complexity of its presence in the lifecourse. Relinquishing a preoccupation with continuity and linearity, youth seen from the vantage point of later life contributes…
Living with other women's lives: Research Resonance' in the Context of Life History Interviewing
This article reflects on the ways researchers are affected by their engagement with the stories they encounter in research. It proposes the notion of ‘research resonance’ to capture the experience of living with research participants’ stories, and by extension, their lives. The article draws on data collected for the ‘Girlhood and Later Life’ project, which investigated youth experiences and transitions to adulthood of women born between 1939 and…
Per cent of the time when I have had a drink in my hand I’m on my phone as well’: A cross-national analysis of communications technologies and drinking practices among young people
Greater use of communication technologies among young people, including mobile phones, social media and communication apps, has coincided with declines in youth alcohol use in many high-income countries. However, little research has unpacked how drinking as a practice within interconnected routines and interactions may be changing alongside these technologies. Drawing on qualitative interviews about drinking with young people aged 16–23 across th…
When I came to university, that’s when the real shift came’: Alcohol and belonging in English higher education
While young people's alcohol consumption has fallen sharply in the United Kingdom and other high-income countries, universities remain places where heavy drinking is routine and normative. Drawing on interviews with undergraduate students, this article explores how heavy drinking is part of how students negotiate a sense of belonging and form personal relationships. Theoretical work on belonging and relationality is used to make sense of students…
Me Too? Re-encountering youth experiences of sexual violence in post-war England from the vantage point of later life
Cultural understandings of sexual abuse, sexual harassment and sexual assault have shifted considerably since the 1960s in the United Kingdom and more widely. This article investigates how changing discourses around sexual abuse, harassment and assault are navigated by British women in later life when they narrate experiences that occurred in their youth in the 1960s and early 1970s. It identifies six sites of youth that are relevant to understan…
Youth Beyond the City: Thinking from the Margins
Alcohol, Age, Generation and the Life Course
Youth Beyond the City: Thinking from the Margins
The purpose of this book is to situate the place beyond the city as an epistemological vantage point for researching youth. Existing frameworks about young people privilege large urban centres or ‘global cities’ and create forms of marginality that are at once spatial and epistemological. This book interrogates and moves beyond these boundaries, turning the margins into a unique position for understanding youth and examining forms of difference w…
‘More options…less time’ in the ‘hustle culture’ of ‘generation sensible’: Individualization and drinking decline among twenty‐first century young adults
There has been a dramatic decline in alcohol consumption among younger people, including an increase of conscious moderation and abstinence. Change has a generational character, with different cohorts' drinking changing over time from the heavy, embedded pattern among post‐war ‘boomers’ to the more selective habits initiated by ‘millennials’. This is a surprising development in historical terms and has been cast as indicating the emergence of a m…
There’s a lot of stereotypes going on”: A cross-national qualitative analysis of the place of gender in declining youth drinking
We identified an intolerance towards regressive constructions of gender that emphasise weakness for women and strength for men and a valorisation of gendered expressions of maturity through controlled drinking. Though subtle differences in gendered drinking practices between and within countries were observed, our findings offer insight into how young people's enactions of gender are embedded in, and evolve alongside, these large declines in yout…
Alcohol, Age, Generation and the Life Course
Recomposing persons: Scavenging and storytelling in a birth cohort archive
Birth cohort studies can be used not only to generate population-level quantitative data, but also to recompose persons. The crux is how we understand data and persons. Recomposition entails scavenging for various (including unrecognised) data. It foregrounds the perspective and subjectivity of survey participants, but without forgetting the partiality and incompleteness of the accounts that it may generate. Although interested in the singularity…
What does love give you: Love Island and the returns of love
Women Drinking Out in Britain since the Early Twentieth Century, David W. Gutzke
Book review
Citizenship in Private Space
This article investigates the place of space in two works of liberal social and political theory, Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women. Contrary to standard interpretations of how these theorists conceptualize citizenship and its relationship to public and private space, the author contends that Wollstonecraft and Mill establish a conceptual basis for thinking about private spac…
Austere life-courses and foreclosed futures: A relational geographical approach to work, housing, and family across austerity Europe
This article seeks to advance geographical understandings of the impact of austerity on young adults in Europe and particularly on their social, relational, and temporal sense of the future. We adopt a life-course perspective to theorise personal, generational, institutional, and social change in relation to one another. Firstly, we progress relational life-course perspectives in human geography to illustrate how place-based experiences of auster…
Introducing 'resonance: Revisioning the relationship between youth and later life in women born 1939-52
This article proposes 'resonance' as a fruitful way of conceptualising the relationship between youth and later life and reflecting on its significance: resonance is how a person's 'youth' is lived with in the present of their later life. Resonance revisions youth, engaging with the complexity of its presence in the lifecourse. Relinquishing a preoccupation with continuity and linearity, youth seen from the vantage point of later life contributes…
Recomposing persons: Scavenging and storytelling in a birth cohort archive
Birth cohort studies can be used not only to generate population-level quantitative data, but also to recompose persons. The crux is how we understand data and persons. Recomposition entails scavenging for various (including unrecognised) data. It foregrounds the perspective and subjectivity of survey participants, but without forgetting the partiality and incompleteness of the accounts that it may generate. Although interested in the singularity…
Citizenship in Private Space
This article investigates the place of space in two works of liberal social and political theory, Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women. Contrary to standard interpretations of how these theorists conceptualize citizenship and its relationship to public and private space, the author contends that Wollstonecraft and Mill establish a conceptual basis for thinking about private spac…
When I came to university, that’s when the real shift came’: Alcohol and belonging in English higher education
While young people's alcohol consumption has fallen sharply in the United Kingdom and other high-income countries, universities remain places where heavy drinking is routine and normative. Drawing on interviews with undergraduate students, this article explores how heavy drinking is part of how students negotiate a sense of belonging and form personal relationships. Theoretical work on belonging and relationality is used to make sense of students…
The (im)mobilities of Covid-19 in later life: Burning and Building Generational Bridges
The COVID-19 pandemic foregrounded a numerical conception of age. Many of the targets of proposals to introduce age-specific restrictions are members of the ‘baby boomer’ generation, a generation that is widely recognised as having a youthful approach to ageing. Attending to arguments that baby boomers are a ‘bridging’ generation – i.e. they share cultural orientations with both preceding and succeeding generations – we argue that ‘bridging’ is a…
Women Drinking Out in Britain since the Early Twentieth Century, David W. Gutzke
Book review
Citizenship in Private Space
This article investigates the place of space in two works of liberal social and political theory, Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women. Contrary to standard interpretations of how these theorists conceptualize citizenship and its relationship to public and private space, the author contends that Wollstonecraft and Mill establish a conceptual basis for thinking about private spac…
Women Drinking Out in Britain since the Early Twentieth Century, David W. Gutzke
Book review
What does love give you: Love Island and the returns of love
Recomposing persons: Scavenging and storytelling in a birth cohort archive
Birth cohort studies can be used not only to generate population-level quantitative data, but also to recompose persons. The crux is how we understand data and persons. Recomposition entails scavenging for various (including unrecognised) data. It foregrounds the perspective and subjectivity of survey participants, but without forgetting the partiality and incompleteness of the accounts that it may generate. Although interested in the singularity…
Youth Beyond the City: Thinking from the Margins
Alcohol, Age, Generation and the Life Course
Youth Beyond the City: Thinking from the Margins
The purpose of this book is to situate the place beyond the city as an epistemological vantage point for researching youth. Existing frameworks about young people privilege large urban centres or ‘global cities’ and create forms of marginality that are at once spatial and epistemological. This book interrogates and moves beyond these boundaries, turning the margins into a unique position for understanding youth and examining forms of difference w…
‘More options…less time’ in the ‘hustle culture’ of ‘generation sensible’: Individualization and drinking decline among twenty‐first century young adults
There has been a dramatic decline in alcohol consumption among younger people, including an increase of conscious moderation and abstinence. Change has a generational character, with different cohorts' drinking changing over time from the heavy, embedded pattern among post‐war ‘boomers’ to the more selective habits initiated by ‘millennials’. This is a surprising development in historical terms and has been cast as indicating the emergence of a m…
There’s a lot of stereotypes going on”: A cross-national qualitative analysis of the place of gender in declining youth drinking
We identified an intolerance towards regressive constructions of gender that emphasise weakness for women and strength for men and a valorisation of gendered expressions of maturity through controlled drinking. Though subtle differences in gendered drinking practices between and within countries were observed, our findings offer insight into how young people's enactions of gender are embedded in, and evolve alongside, these large declines in yout…
Alcohol, Age, Generation and the Life Course
Per cent of the time when I have had a drink in my hand I’m on my phone as well’: A cross-national analysis of communications technologies and drinking practices among young people
Greater use of communication technologies among young people, including mobile phones, social media and communication apps, has coincided with declines in youth alcohol use in many high-income countries. However, little research has unpacked how drinking as a practice within interconnected routines and interactions may be changing alongside these technologies. Drawing on qualitative interviews about drinking with young people aged 16–23 across th…
When I came to university, that’s when the real shift came’: Alcohol and belonging in English higher education
While young people's alcohol consumption has fallen sharply in the United Kingdom and other high-income countries, universities remain places where heavy drinking is routine and normative. Drawing on interviews with undergraduate students, this article explores how heavy drinking is part of how students negotiate a sense of belonging and form personal relationships. Theoretical work on belonging and relationality is used to make sense of students…
Me Too? Re-encountering youth experiences of sexual violence in post-war England from the vantage point of later life
Cultural understandings of sexual abuse, sexual harassment and sexual assault have shifted considerably since the 1960s in the United Kingdom and more widely. This article investigates how changing discourses around sexual abuse, harassment and assault are navigated by British women in later life when they narrate experiences that occurred in their youth in the 1960s and early 1970s. It identifies six sites of youth that are relevant to understan…
Geographies of alcohol and generation: Examining the decline in youth drinking in England through a spatial lens
Introducing 'resonance: Revisioning the relationship between youth and later life in women born 1939-52
This article proposes 'resonance' as a fruitful way of conceptualising the relationship between youth and later life and reflecting on its significance: resonance is how a person's 'youth' is lived with in the present of their later life. Resonance revisions youth, engaging with the complexity of its presence in the lifecourse. Relinquishing a preoccupation with continuity and linearity, youth seen from the vantage point of later life contributes…
Living with other women's lives: Research Resonance' in the Context of Life History Interviewing
This article reflects on the ways researchers are affected by their engagement with the stories they encounter in research. It proposes the notion of ‘research resonance’ to capture the experience of living with research participants’ stories, and by extension, their lives. The article draws on data collected for the ‘Girlhood and Later Life’ project, which investigated youth experiences and transitions to adulthood of women born between 1939 and…
Intersecting stigmas: How racial attitudes shape support for treatment and harm reduction for people who inject drugs
Austere life-courses and foreclosed futures: A relational geographical approach to work, housing, and family across austerity Europe
This article seeks to advance geographical understandings of the impact of austerity on young adults in Europe and particularly on their social, relational, and temporal sense of the future. We adopt a life-course perspective to theorise personal, generational, institutional, and social change in relation to one another. Firstly, we progress relational life-course perspectives in human geography to illustrate how place-based experiences of auster…
The (im)mobilities of Covid-19 in later life: Burning and Building Generational Bridges
The COVID-19 pandemic foregrounded a numerical conception of age. Many of the targets of proposals to introduce age-specific restrictions are members of the ‘baby boomer’ generation, a generation that is widely recognised as having a youthful approach to ageing. Attending to arguments that baby boomers are a ‘bridging’ generation – i.e. they share cultural orientations with both preceding and succeeding generations – we argue that ‘bridging’ is a…
A synthesis of explanations for spatial inequalities in gambling harm: Integrating Social and Material Dimensions of Place
Place matters for understanding patterns of gambling harm as shown by the spatial clustering of both 'vulnerable' people and gambling outlets. Harms are experienced at a community level (and never restricted to individuals) and are spread unequally across communities of place. Following the liberalisation of gambling laws in the UK in the 1990s, gambling outlets and advertising have proliferated in many economically disadvantaged places, with the…
Mother’s ruin? The relational alcohol consumption practices and experiences of mothers and their teenage and young adult children
Harms and Health Inequalities in the Night-Time Economy: A Qualitative Exploration of Professional Stakeholders’ Experiences and Explanations
Goods and services consumed in the night-time economy (NTE) are associated with adverse health outcomes. These outcomes are more prevalent in areas with greater deprivation and among minoritized population subgroups. This study was aimed at exploring the views of local authority stakeholders on the harms and health inequalities in the NTE. We focused on inequalities from alcohol and gambling, their relationship with the NTE and how different form…
From foreclosure to potentiality
Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (5 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works)