The Pleasures of Risk and the Limits of Resistance
A Critical Exploration of the Concept of Edgework
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6052574 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Naegler (0000-0002-1093-0282, University of Liverpool, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 567-582 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1205-8629 • E-ISSN: 1572-9877 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10612-025-09840-5 |
| OpenAlex | W4412809798 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
In scholarly accounts of voluntary risk-taking, the idea of edgework constituting resistance has been explored in relation to a range of activities and contexts. Yet, there remains conceptual ambiguity around the extent to which edgework can be understood as resistance, and if it is determined to be so by actors themselves. In this critical review of existing research, I explore the potentials of edgework as an immediate and context-specific form of emotional resistance, as well as edgework’s conceptual limitations. As I argue, for moving towards a theoretically robust conceptualisation of ‘edgework-resistance’ what is necessitated is an awareness of edgework’s paradoxical character, the foregrounding of intersections of class, race and gender, and the avoidance of externally-defined ascriptions of resistant intent
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Cultural Criminology
Revitalizing Criminological Theory
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Constructing Indignation
Seductions of Crime
Edgework
Urban Subversion and the Creative City
Sociology at the Edge
Weapons of the Weak
Understanding the Risk Society
Riot, Unrest and Protest on the Global Stage
The Exclusive Society
Queer Phenomenology
Cultural Criminology and Gender Consciousness
Cultural criminology
Merton with Energy, Katz with Structure
Boredom, Crime and Criminology
Crime, Edgework and Corporeal Transaction
Emotion at the Center of Radical Politics
Resistance as Edgework in Violent Intimate Relationships of Drug -Involved Women
City Limits
Goldman-Sachs doesn’t care if you raise chicken
Starving Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have
In Defense of Resistance
Cultural Criminology
Conceptualizing Resistance
Chaos, Order, and Collaboration
Assessing the Risk of Inattention to Class, Race/Ethnicity, and Gender
Edgework
We Share Our Stories and Risk Losing It All
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |