Halsema, Jikke (2023) The Prevalence of Sexual Harassment in the Nightlife of Groningen and the Potential Effects on the Perception of Safety among Students. Master thesis, Cultural Geography - Tourism Geography and Planning (TGP).
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Abstract
This paper examines the extent to which sexual harassment is prevalent among students in the nightlife of Groningen, the Netherlands, and whether this influences their perception of safety regarding the day of the week. To do so a mixed method approach has been conducted, consisting of a questionnaire distributed among students in Groningen to gather an understanding of the topic and a nightlife diary of one specific night out in Groningen which has been kept by four participants, in which they gathered photo, video and audio material to portray the way they saw the night and their experiences in it, followed up by a semi-structured interview a few days later on the nightlife diary and their general experiences with the nightlife of Groningen. Using the insights from these interviews together with personal experiences of the researcher these results were written down using an autoethnographic story telling approach. It may be argued that sexual harassment is quite prevalent among students in the nightlife of Groningen as 73,8% of the questionnaire responded has on at least one occasion experienced sexual harassment in the nightlife, among female respondents this number lay at 83%. Perception of safety regarding the day of the week was most prevalent on Friday and Saturday night, due to an increase in nightlife tourists changing the dynamic of the night. A clear comprehensive policy should be implemented on how to respond to sexual harassment in the nightlife of Groningen, in order to remove the uncertainty currently existing.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Name supervisor: | Muldoon, M.L. |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Sep 2023 10:46 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Sep 2023 10:46 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/330 |
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