Daniel Briggs
Biographic Data
| ID | 79897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Briggs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Briggs |
| SIGNATURE | BRIGGS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Europea de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9219-9456 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Legacies of the Lost in Criminology
Lost and Found: Immersion, Drift and Crossing the Line in Covert Ethnographic Work
The school of hard knocks: Systemic violence and the motivation to harm in boys’ youth academy football
The 'beautiful game' of football may seem to be a curious artifact of study for this scholarly collection on violence. However, this article will highlight the need to explore the boys' English youth academy (YA) football industry as a manifestation of systemic violence and, ultimately, a reflection of the pseudo-pacified neoliberal economy. Embedding our theoretical analysis within emerging literature on harm and violence, this paper will illumi…
Critical Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline
The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed the way we live, work, and interact with each other. Nowhere was the pandemic more profoundly experienced than on the frontline of healthcare. From overwhelmed Intensive Care Units to shortages of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and clap for carers, the UK's National Health Service (NHS) became the focal point for the pandemic response. Utilising data from online survey responses (N = 16) complement…
The New Futures of Exclusion: Life in the Covid-19 Aftermath
This book discusses the rise of digital surveillance and new forms of control throughout the pandemic, including vaccine passports.
New Futures of Exclusion: Life in the Covid-19 Aftermath
Targets and overwork: Neoliberalism and the maximisation of profitability from the workplace
Drawing on 25 qualitative interviews, this paper attends to and critiques neoliberalism to demonstrate how management's enforcement of targets and the expectancy to overwork in various workplaces corrodes the relationship between managers and employees. First, the paper briefly charts how the shift from post-war Keynesian welfare state capitalism to neoliberalism in the global north placed renewed emphasis on maximising profitability, and what th…
Climate Changed: Refugee Border Stories and the Business of Misery
Climate Changed is an honest and humane account about the rapid downsizing of the world’s natural resources and the consequences this has for millions of people who, year after year, are displaced from their home countries because of politically instigated and economically justified war and conflict. Based on interviews with 110 refugees who arrived into Europe from 2015 to 2018 and observations of refugee camps, border crossings, inner-city slum…
New hope or old futures in disguise? Neoliberalism, the Covid-19 pandemic and the possibility for social change
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the implications of both the Covid-19 pandemic and UK lockdown for the social, political and economic future of the UK. Drawing on primary data obtained during the lockdown and the theoretical concepts of transcendental materialism and the “event”, the paper discusses the strength of participants' attachment to the “old normal” and their dreams of a “new normal”. Design/methodology/approach This pa…
Observing Participants: Digital Ethnography in Online Dating Environments and the Cultivation of Online Research Identities
This article offers a critical methodological reflection on how we undertook covert digital ethnographic research on Spanish young people and their use of online dating apps with a focus on the potential risk attached to using them. We were interested in showing how we approached the fieldwork, how we developed different research identities and how those identities were able to draw out raw data which reflected the risk attached to the online dat…
Liberalism, Lack and 'Living the Dream: Reconsidering the attractions of alcohol-based leisure for young tourists in Magaluf, Majorca
Much of the academic literature on alcohol-based leisure focuses on the pleasures of hedonism and youthful cultural exploration in environments free from the prescriptions, pressures and routines of everyday life. In this article - in which we present data from our ongoing ethnographic research exploring the experiences and attitudes of young British tourists in the Spanish resort of Magaluf on the island of Majorca - we argue that the standard l…
Commodifying Intimacy in 'Hard times: A Hardcore Ethnography of a Luxury Brothel
This paper is a methodological reflection on an ongoing covert ethnography I have been undertaking in a luxury brothel in Madrid, Spain. By accident, this study became a research project when I was employed by the manager to review porn forums offering feedback on the women that worked there and taught English to him. For 18 months now, I have worked in the brothel a couple of nights a week doing these duties and have come to know the manager's c…
Dead-End Lives: Drugs and Violence in the City Shadows
Using vivid testimonies and images, Briggs and Monge Gamero document the stories and situations of the people who live in Valdemingómez, placing them in a political, economic and social context
The Last Night of Freedom: Consumerism, Deviance and the 'Stag Party
This article offers an ethnographic examination of the stag party phenomenon in the United Kingdom. Stag parties have become socially expected as a rite of passage, pre-marriage celebration for men that usually involves excessive alcohol consumption and engagement in deviant, potentially harmful, behavior. These events produce a shift in time and space, and together with group expectations for celebration, increase the impetus for excessive consu…
The Consequences of Mobility
This book explores various forms of highly skilled mobility in the European Union, assessing the potential for this movement to contribute to individual and societal development. In doing so, the authors illustrate some of the issues arising from the opening up of Europe’s borders, and exposing its education systems and labour markets to international competition. While acknowledging the potentially positive aspects of mobility, they also reveal …
It’s like working away for two weeks’: The harms associated with young drug dealers commuting from a saturated London drug market
Going solo: The social organisation of drug dealing within a London street gang
This paper presents a single case study of one street gang in one London borough. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 gang members, or former gang members, and seven practitioners. The practitioners and gang members/ex-gang members reported different perspectives on how the gang was structured and drug dealing was organised. The gang members/ex-gang members suggested that the gang is a loose social network with little recognisable f…
Violência, agitação global, e capitalismo avançado: Os Motins Ingleses De 2011
Over the last five years or so, we have witnessed increasing forms of violence and unrest across the world. In the media, these depictions of violence are presented as actions of resistance to oppressive regimes and corrupt politics yet are, at the same time, deliberately detached from a global politik which is collapsing in numerous ways: the manifestations evident in market instability, and increasing austerity, unemployment and marginalisation…
Ethnographic Research among Drinking Youth Cultures: Reflections from Observing Participants
Increasingly, ethnographic methods in the social sciences are being robbed of their capacity to research problematic social groups given the increased "risk governance" to ethical and methodological practices. Positivism and constructing objective realities of these groups has become the order of the day, which has resulted in a 'conceptual distance' from these kinds of social groups. In this article, we advocate for a return to subjectivity usin…
Culture and Immigration in Context: An Ethnography of Romanian Migrant Workers in London
Based on ethnographic data, this revealing study presents a humane and realistic account of Romanian economic migrants and their life in the UK, providing a more balanced picture of the way new immigr
Drinking stories: A time in space and a space in time
Violence, Global Unrest and Advanced Capitalism
Over the last five years or so, we have witnessed increasing forms of violence and unrest across the world. In the media, these depictions are presented as actions of resistance to oppressive regimes and corrupt politics, yet are, at the same time, deliberately detached from a global politik which is collapsing in numerous ways: the manifestations evident in market instability, and increasing austerity, unemployment and social inequality; a sign …
Risk and transgression on holiday: New Experiences' and the Pied Piper of Excessive Consumption
When British youth spend holiday abroad, they tend to engage in increased consumption of alcohol, drugs, violence and unprotected sex - collectively known as 'risk' behaviours. While numerous epidemiological studies have documented the extent of these risk behaviours in places like the Balearic Islands, few have taken a phenomenological approach with the participants who go there - to find out how they experience and attribute meaning to their tr…
Deviance and Risk on Holiday: An Ethnography of British Tourists in Ibiza
Deviance and Risk on Holiday
This book represents the first attempt to step inside the holiday experience of young British tourists in San Antonio, Ibiza. Briggs' ethnographic study reveals the ugly truth about how and why they g
Shopocalypse Now: Consumer Culture and the English Riots of 2011
This article is an initial analysis and theorization of original ethnographic data gathered from young men who participated in the English riots of August 2011. The data consistently suggest that consumer culture supplied these young men with a compelling motivation to join the rioting after the initial localized response to the original incident had died down. The data are analysed in a way that builds a theory of the rioting as a product of obj…
New hope or old futures in disguise? Neoliberalism, the Covid-19 pandemic and the possibility for social change
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the implications of both the Covid-19 pandemic and UK lockdown for the social, political and economic future of the UK. Drawing on primary data obtained during the lockdown and the theoretical concepts of transcendental materialism and the “event”, the paper discusses the strength of participants' attachment to the “old normal” and their dreams of a “new normal”. Design/methodology/approach This pa…
The Consequences of Mobility
This book explores various forms of highly skilled mobility in the European Union, assessing the potential for this movement to contribute to individual and societal development. In doing so, the authors illustrate some of the issues arising from the opening up of Europe’s borders, and exposing its education systems and labour markets to international competition. While acknowledging the potentially positive aspects of mobility, they also reveal …
Deviance and Risk on Holiday
This book represents the first attempt to step inside the holiday experience of young British tourists in San Antonio, Ibiza. Briggs' ethnographic study reveals the ugly truth about how and why they g
Going solo: The social organisation of drug dealing within a London street gang
This paper presents a single case study of one street gang in one London borough. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 gang members, or former gang members, and seven practitioners. The practitioners and gang members/ex-gang members reported different perspectives on how the gang was structured and drug dealing was organised. The gang members/ex-gang members suggested that the gang is a loose social network with little recognisable f…
True stories from bare times on road: Developing empowerment, identity and social capital among urban minority ethnic young people in London, UK
This paper is based on evaluative research in an inner-London borough on a programme designed to raise self esteem and deter minority ethnic young people from involvement in crime and participation in gangs. The aim of the programme was to work with young people 'at risk' or involved with gangs, violent crime and who may use weapons and to divert them from this behaviour. Essentially, the paper explores the way in which minority ethnic young peop…
The Last Night of Freedom: Consumerism, Deviance and the 'Stag Party
This article offers an ethnographic examination of the stag party phenomenon in the United Kingdom. Stag parties have become socially expected as a rite of passage, pre-marriage celebration for men that usually involves excessive alcohol consumption and engagement in deviant, potentially harmful, behavior. These events produce a shift in time and space, and together with group expectations for celebration, increase the impetus for excessive consu…
Risk and transgression on holiday: New Experiences' and the Pied Piper of Excessive Consumption
When British youth spend holiday abroad, they tend to engage in increased consumption of alcohol, drugs, violence and unprotected sex - collectively known as 'risk' behaviours. While numerous epidemiological studies have documented the extent of these risk behaviours in places like the Balearic Islands, few have taken a phenomenological approach with the participants who go there - to find out how they experience and attribute meaning to their tr…
Critical Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline
The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed the way we live, work, and interact with each other. Nowhere was the pandemic more profoundly experienced than on the frontline of healthcare. From overwhelmed Intensive Care Units to shortages of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and clap for carers, the UK's National Health Service (NHS) became the focal point for the pandemic response. Utilising data from online survey responses (N = 16) complement…
It’s like working away for two weeks’: The harms associated with young drug dealers commuting from a saturated London drug market
Targets and overwork: Neoliberalism and the maximisation of profitability from the workplace
Drawing on 25 qualitative interviews, this paper attends to and critiques neoliberalism to demonstrate how management's enforcement of targets and the expectancy to overwork in various workplaces corrodes the relationship between managers and employees. First, the paper briefly charts how the shift from post-war Keynesian welfare state capitalism to neoliberalism in the global north placed renewed emphasis on maximising profitability, and what th…
Liberalism, Lack and 'Living the Dream: Reconsidering the attractions of alcohol-based leisure for young tourists in Magaluf, Majorca
Much of the academic literature on alcohol-based leisure focuses on the pleasures of hedonism and youthful cultural exploration in environments free from the prescriptions, pressures and routines of everyday life. In this article - in which we present data from our ongoing ethnographic research exploring the experiences and attitudes of young British tourists in the Spanish resort of Magaluf on the island of Majorca - we argue that the standard l…
Commodifying Intimacy in 'Hard times: A Hardcore Ethnography of a Luxury Brothel
This paper is a methodological reflection on an ongoing covert ethnography I have been undertaking in a luxury brothel in Madrid, Spain. By accident, this study became a research project when I was employed by the manager to review porn forums offering feedback on the women that worked there and taught English to him. For 18 months now, I have worked in the brothel a couple of nights a week doing these duties and have come to know the manager's c…
Assessing the use and impact of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders
Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) have become the main sanction for dealing with anti-social behaviour in the UK. This book provides one of the first assessments of this sanction, which has become widely used but remains extremely controversial. The report is based on detailed interviews with ASBO recipients, practitioners and community representatives in areas affected by anti-social behaviour. Examining its use and impact from these various …
Assessing the use and impact of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders
Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) have become the main sanction for dealing with anti-social behaviour in the UK. This book represents one of the first assessments of this sanction, which has become widely used but remains extremely controversial. The report is based on detailed interviews with ASBO recipients, practitioners and community representatives in areas affected by anti-social behaviour. Examining its use and impact from these variou…
Los Gitanos (Gypsies) in La Corua, Spain: Neither socially included nor integrated
Historically throughout Spain, the gitano (Gypsy) culture has been met with racism, discrimination and persecution. In recent years, however, there have been increasing efforts to integrate gitanos into mainstream Spanish society. However, little attention has been paid to the progress in La Corua in Galicia. While gitano numbers do not match those in other parts of Spain, in La Corua over the last 30 years, increasingly the gypsy population has …
True stories from bare times on road: Developing empowerment, identity and social capital among urban minority ethnic young people in London, UK
This paper is based on evaluative research in an inner-London borough on a programme designed to raise self esteem and deter minority ethnic young people from involvement in crime and participation in gangs. The aim of the programme was to work with young people 'at risk' or involved with gangs, violent crime and who may use weapons and to divert them from this behaviour. Essentially, the paper explores the way in which minority ethnic young peop…
Flashback: Drugs and Dealing in the Golden Age of the London Rave Scene. By J. Ward (Cullompton: Willan Publishing, 2010, 182pp. 45.00)
Jennifer Ward's five-year ethnographic study gives new insights into the lives, experiences and dilemmas of drug dealers and drug users involved in the London rave scene in the 1990s. The structure of the book offers a useful way to describe the social scenery and its actors. Chapter 1 aptly outlines the context for the study. The concise literature review shows how, during the 1990s in London, music and drugs were bound within shifting notions o…
Deviance and Risk on Holiday: An Ethnography of British Tourists in Ibiza
Deviance and Risk on Holiday
This book represents the first attempt to step inside the holiday experience of young British tourists in San Antonio, Ibiza. Briggs' ethnographic study reveals the ugly truth about how and why they g
Shopocalypse Now: Consumer Culture and the English Riots of 2011
This article is an initial analysis and theorization of original ethnographic data gathered from young men who participated in the English riots of August 2011. The data consistently suggest that consumer culture supplied these young men with a compelling motivation to join the rioting after the initial localized response to the original incident had died down. The data are analysed in a way that builds a theory of the rioting as a product of obj…
States of Delinquency: Race and Science in the Making of California's Juvenile Justice System
M. Chavez-Garcia, STATES OF DELINQUENCY: RACE AND SCIENCE IN THE MAKING OF CALIFORNIA'S JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM, CA: University of California Press, 2012, 290 pp., $27.95 (paper) Miroslavia Chavez
Culture and Immigration in Context: An Ethnography of Romanian Migrant Workers in London
Based on ethnographic data, this revealing study presents a humane and realistic account of Romanian economic migrants and their life in the UK, providing a more balanced picture of the way new immigr
Drinking stories: A time in space and a space in time
Violence, Global Unrest and Advanced Capitalism
Over the last five years or so, we have witnessed increasing forms of violence and unrest across the world. In the media, these depictions are presented as actions of resistance to oppressive regimes and corrupt politics, yet are, at the same time, deliberately detached from a global politik which is collapsing in numerous ways: the manifestations evident in market instability, and increasing austerity, unemployment and social inequality; a sign …
Risk and transgression on holiday: New Experiences' and the Pied Piper of Excessive Consumption
When British youth spend holiday abroad, they tend to engage in increased consumption of alcohol, drugs, violence and unprotected sex - collectively known as 'risk' behaviours. While numerous epidemiological studies have documented the extent of these risk behaviours in places like the Balearic Islands, few have taken a phenomenological approach with the participants who go there - to find out how they experience and attribute meaning to their tr…
It’s like working away for two weeks’: The harms associated with young drug dealers commuting from a saturated London drug market
Going solo: The social organisation of drug dealing within a London street gang
This paper presents a single case study of one street gang in one London borough. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 gang members, or former gang members, and seven practitioners. The practitioners and gang members/ex-gang members reported different perspectives on how the gang was structured and drug dealing was organised. The gang members/ex-gang members suggested that the gang is a loose social network with little recognisable f…
Violência, agitação global, e capitalismo avançado: Os Motins Ingleses De 2011
Over the last five years or so, we have witnessed increasing forms of violence and unrest across the world. In the media, these depictions of violence are presented as actions of resistance to oppressive regimes and corrupt politics yet are, at the same time, deliberately detached from a global politik which is collapsing in numerous ways: the manifestations evident in market instability, and increasing austerity, unemployment and marginalisation…
Ethnographic Research among Drinking Youth Cultures: Reflections from Observing Participants
Increasingly, ethnographic methods in the social sciences are being robbed of their capacity to research problematic social groups given the increased "risk governance" to ethical and methodological practices. Positivism and constructing objective realities of these groups has become the order of the day, which has resulted in a 'conceptual distance' from these kinds of social groups. In this article, we advocate for a return to subjectivity usin…
Dead-End Lives: Drugs and Violence in the City Shadows
Using vivid testimonies and images, Briggs and Monge Gamero document the stories and situations of the people who live in Valdemingómez, placing them in a political, economic and social context
The Last Night of Freedom: Consumerism, Deviance and the 'Stag Party
This article offers an ethnographic examination of the stag party phenomenon in the United Kingdom. Stag parties have become socially expected as a rite of passage, pre-marriage celebration for men that usually involves excessive alcohol consumption and engagement in deviant, potentially harmful, behavior. These events produce a shift in time and space, and together with group expectations for celebration, increase the impetus for excessive consu…
The Consequences of Mobility
This book explores various forms of highly skilled mobility in the European Union, assessing the potential for this movement to contribute to individual and societal development. In doing so, the authors illustrate some of the issues arising from the opening up of Europe’s borders, and exposing its education systems and labour markets to international competition. While acknowledging the potentially positive aspects of mobility, they also reveal …
Liberalism, Lack and 'Living the Dream: Reconsidering the attractions of alcohol-based leisure for young tourists in Magaluf, Majorca
Much of the academic literature on alcohol-based leisure focuses on the pleasures of hedonism and youthful cultural exploration in environments free from the prescriptions, pressures and routines of everyday life. In this article - in which we present data from our ongoing ethnographic research exploring the experiences and attitudes of young British tourists in the Spanish resort of Magaluf on the island of Majorca - we argue that the standard l…
Commodifying Intimacy in 'Hard times: A Hardcore Ethnography of a Luxury Brothel
This paper is a methodological reflection on an ongoing covert ethnography I have been undertaking in a luxury brothel in Madrid, Spain. By accident, this study became a research project when I was employed by the manager to review porn forums offering feedback on the women that worked there and taught English to him. For 18 months now, I have worked in the brothel a couple of nights a week doing these duties and have come to know the manager's c…
Observing Participants: Digital Ethnography in Online Dating Environments and the Cultivation of Online Research Identities
This article offers a critical methodological reflection on how we undertook covert digital ethnographic research on Spanish young people and their use of online dating apps with a focus on the potential risk attached to using them. We were interested in showing how we approached the fieldwork, how we developed different research identities and how those identities were able to draw out raw data which reflected the risk attached to the online dat…
Climate Changed: Refugee Border Stories and the Business of Misery
Climate Changed is an honest and humane account about the rapid downsizing of the world’s natural resources and the consequences this has for millions of people who, year after year, are displaced from their home countries because of politically instigated and economically justified war and conflict. Based on interviews with 110 refugees who arrived into Europe from 2015 to 2018 and observations of refugee camps, border crossings, inner-city slum…
New hope or old futures in disguise? Neoliberalism, the Covid-19 pandemic and the possibility for social change
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the implications of both the Covid-19 pandemic and UK lockdown for the social, political and economic future of the UK. Drawing on primary data obtained during the lockdown and the theoretical concepts of transcendental materialism and the “event”, the paper discusses the strength of participants' attachment to the “old normal” and their dreams of a “new normal”. Design/methodology/approach This pa…
Sociology (26 works) · Political science (21 works) · Law (16 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Ethnography (11 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works)