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What role do the material and non-corporeal elements of venues play in mediating young people’s sense of safety and in shaping or facilitating the occurrence of unwanted sexual attention? This chapter explores the role of spatial design, environment, and geographies as a final component of assemblages of unwanted sexual attention and safety. However, it argues that the physical design and environment cannot be viewed in isolation from other factors such as venue culture and participants’ sense of belonging in a venue: these are intimately intertwined with whether or not young people feel a need to exert control and autonomy over self and space. It is likely to be a complex assemblage of these factors that facilitate unwanted sexual attention and that mediate how young adults understand or perceive their experiences.

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Fileborn, B. (2016). Space and Control. In: Reclaiming the Night-Time Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58791-6_6

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