ABSTRACT

In this chapter, we explore how social control takes form in the open spaces where young people move, by disparate gazes from different social agencies, in both direct and indirect ways, creating a net of controlling surveillance. We show how such gazes are relational, underlining how being in the spotlight has implications for the conduct of young people as well as managers and coaches. By examining tensions between locating activities to partially confined spaces of intervention, and controlling the movement of young people beyond, we introduce how the conduct of conduct takes form in many places, in different relations and in activities in all capillaries of society.