ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to ground abstract theories of risk using empirical data on young South Asian women's perceptions of risk and risk management strategies in leisure settings. A major concern of this chapter is with how young South Asian women construct risk within their own socially embedded and culturally meaningful discourses and how they develop risk management strategies which enable them to enjoy their leisure in safe space. The chapter concerns the ways in which young women designate places as non-risky or safe spaces, for example, the young women in our study refer, in particular, to community venues as safe leisure spaces. It draws upon qualitative data from the Nisaa Project; Nisaa is derived from the Arabic word meaning women. An ongoing action research project financed consecutively by UK government and then European urban regeneration funds and based in Middletown, a large industrial town in the North of England.
