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• INTRODUCTN“CHAV” IS A SOCIAL PHENOMENON THAT GAED SIGNIFINT POPULAR MEDIA VERAGE AND ATTENTN THE UNED KGDOM THE EARLY 2000S. CHAVS ARE OFTEN CHARACTERISED, BY OTHERS, AS YOUNG PEOPLE OM A BACKGROUND OF LOW SOCENOMIC STAT, UALLY CLOTHED BRAND SPORTSWEAR. ALL FNS OF CHAV POSN THEM AS CULTURALLY ANOMALO, AS OTHER.THIS ARTICLE MAPS OUT A MULTIDISCIPLARY FN OF THE CHAV, SYNTHISED OM 21 PUBLISHED AMIC PUBLITNS: THREE RECURRENT THEM SCHOLARLY DISCSN EMERGE. FIRST, THIS REARCH PRENTS WHENS AS AN ASSUMED AND SENTIAL FACET OF CHAV INTY. WHEN MARGALISG CHAVS BEE OF THEIR “RRECT WHENS”, THE WORKS ASSIGN THEM A PROBLEMATIC AND PLEX RELATNSHIP WH ETHNICY AND RACE. SEND, CHAV DISURSE HAS PREVLY BEEN DISCSED AS A FORM OF TENSE CLASS-BASED ABHORRENCE. CHAVS, WOULD SEEM, ARE PERCEIVED AS ANOMALO BY THEIR OWN CLASS AND THOSE WHO EM THEMSELV OF A HIGHER SOCENOMIC STAT. FALLY, CHAVS’ NSUMPTN CHOIC ARE EXPLORED AS AMPLIFYG SUCH NEGATIVE NSTCTNS OF CLASS AND WHE ETHNIC INTI, WHICH ARE EMED AS FORMG AN UNSIRABLE ATHETIC. THIS PIECE IS NOT TEND TO BATE WHETHER OR NOT CHAV IS A SUBCULTURE, CLUBCULTURE OR NEOTRIBE. ALTHOUGH GREG MART’S DISCSN AROUND THE SIARI BETWEEN HISTORIL SUBCULTUR AND CHAVS REMAS PERTENT AND NVCG, THIS ARTICLE DISCS HOW YOUNG PEOPLE LABELLED AS CHAVS ARE EXCLUD ON A VARIETY OF ONTS. IT DRAWS A CROSS-DISCIPLARY MAPPG OF THE CHAV, PROVIDG THE BEGNGS OF A FN OF A ROGATORY LABEL, APPLIED TO YOUNG PEOPLE MARKG THEM ANOMALO BRISH SOCIETY.WHAT IS A CHAV?THE WORD CHAV BEME OFFICIALLY CLUD THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE THE UK 2003, WHEN WAS DUCTED TO THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTNARY (OED). THE CURRENT OED ENTRY OFFERS MANY POTS FOR FURTHER DISCSN, ALL CENTRED UPON A DISCRIMATORY POSNG OF CHAV:CHAV, N. ETYMOLOGY: PROBABLY EHER < ROMANI čHAVO UNMARRIED ROMANI MALE, MALE ROMANI CHILD (SEE CHAVVY N.), OR SHORTENED < EHER CHAVVY N. OR S ETYMON ANGLOROMANI CHAVVY. BR. SLANG (ROGATORY). IN THE UNED KGDOM (ORIGALLY THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND): A YOUNG PERSON OF A TYPE CHARACTERIZED BY BRASH AND LOUTISH BEHAVUR AND THE WEARG OF SIGNER-STYLE CLOTH (P. SPORTSWEAR); UALLY WH NNOTATNS OF A LOW SOCIAL STAT.CHAV WAS ADOPTED BY BRISH NATNAL MEDIA AS A TCH-ALL TERM ENPASSG REGNAL VARIANTS. MANY DISCSNS HAVE LIKENED CHAV TO GROUPS SUCH AS “BOGANS” ATRALIA AND “TRAILER TRASH” THE US. WEBS SUCH AS URBANDICTNARY AND CHAVSCUM HAVE OFTEN, RMALLY, FED CHAV THROUGH A SERI OF ROGATORY “BACKCRONYMS” SUCH AS COUNCIL HOED AND VLENT OR COUNCIL HOE ASSOCIATED VERM, POSNG AS A ROGATORY SOCIAL LABEL SYNONYMO WH NOTNS OF PERCEIVED CRIMALY, POVERTY, POOR TASTE, DANGER, FEAR, CLASS, AND WHENS.CHAV ME TO REAL PROMENCE THE EARLY 2000S MASTREAM BRISH MEDIA, GAG VISIBILY THROUGH TELEVISN SHOWS SUCH AS SHAMELS (2004-2013), LTLE BRA (2003-2006), AND THE CATHERE TATE SHOW (2004-2009). THE TERM EXPLOD ACROSS THE TABLOID PRS, AS NOTED BY ANTOETTE RENOUF 2005. EXTENSIVE TABLOID PRS VERAGE DROVE THE PHENOMENON TO ONT-PAGE VERAGE TIME MAGAZE 2008. CHAVS WERE OBSERVED AS OFTEN WEARG BURBERRY CHECK-PATTERNED CLOTHG. FOR THE FIRST TIME SCE S FOUNDG 1856, AND DUE TO THE EXTENT OF CHAV’S NEGATIVE MEDIA VERAGE, BURBERRY CID TO LARGELY REMOVE S TRAMARK CHECK PATTERN BETWEEN 2001 AND 2014 OM SALE. CHAVS AMIATHE BRIC OF THE CHAV DID NOT EMERGE AMIA WH THE SAME VIGOUR AS DID POPULAR MEDIA, FAILG TO GA THE VISIBILY OF PREV YOUTH SOCIAL FORMATNS SUCH AS PUNKS, MODS, ET AL. RATHER, THERE HAS BEEN A MOST BUT NSISTENT NUMBER OF AMIC PUBLITNS DISCSG THIS SUBJECT: 1-3 PUBLITNS PER YEAR, PUBLISHED BETWEEN 2006-2015.  OF THE 22 AMIC TEXTS EXPLICLY ADDRSG AND DISCSG CHAVS, NONE WERE PUBLISHED PRR TO 2006. EXTENSIVE SEARCH ON DATABAS SUCH AS EBSCO, JSTOR AND PROQUT, YIELD NO FURTHER AMIC PUBLITNS ON THIS SUBJECT SCE JOANNE HEENEY’S 2015 DISCSN OF CHAV AND S RELATNSHIP TO NTTED NCEPTUALISATNS OF DISABILY.FROM A REVIEW OF THE AVAILABLE LERATURE, THE FOLLOWG KEY THEMATIC GROUPGS N THROUGH THE PUBLITNS: CHAVS’ EMBODIMENT OF A "WRONG" TYPE OF WHE INTY; THEIR EMBODIMENT OF A "WRONG" TYPE OF WORKG-CLASS INTY; AND FALLY, THEIR PICTN AS FLAWED NSUMERS. I WILL NOW DISCS THE GROUPGS, AND THEIR IMPLITNS FOR FUTURE REARCH, ORR TO CHART A MULTIDISCIPLARY NCEPTUALISATN OF THE CHAV. ULTIMATELY, MY DISCSN WILL EVINCE HOW "OUT OF PLACE" CHAVS APPEAR TO BE TERMS OF RACE AND ETHNICY, CLASS, AND NSUMPTN CHOIC.  CHAVS AS “WRONG” WHTHE DIVIDG PRACTIC (FOUULT) EVINT UK POPULAR MEDIA AND WEBS SUCH AS URBANDICTNARY THE EARLY 2000S DISTCTLY SEPARATED “HYPERVISIBLE ‘FILTHY WH’” (TYLER) OM THE “RPECTABLE WHENS” OF THE BRISH MIDDLE-CLASS. AS IMOGEN TYLER PUTS , “THE CUMULATIVE EFFECT OF THIS DISGT IS THE BLOCKG OF THE DISENANCHISED WHE POOR OM VIEW; THEY ARE RENRED VISIBLE AND PREHENSIBLE”, A PERSPECTIVE REVISED RELATN TO THE "CELEBRY CHAV" BY TYLER AND JOE BENT. IN A WIR DISCSN OF ETHNICY, SEGREGATN AND DISCRIMATN, COL WEBSTER DISCS CHAV AND “WHE TRASH”, WH THE NTEXT OF DISURS THAT CRIMALISE CERTA FORMS OF WHENS. THE NSPICUO ABSENCE OF WHENS BAT REGARDG FAIR REPRENTATN OF ETHNICY AND EXCLN IS HIGHLIGHTED HERE, AS IS THE DIFFICULTY THAT SOCIAL SCIENC OFTEN ENUNTER NCEPTUALISG WHENS TERMS EXCEEDG PRIVILEGE, SUPERRY, POWER, AND NORMALY.  BENT DISCS CHAVSPEAK, AS A LANGUAGE NCEIVED AS ENACTG BATNS OF WELL-KNOWN SOCLGUISTIC STEREOTYP. CHAVSPEAK RIV OM AN AMALGAMATN OF BLACK ENGLISH VERNACULARS, POTENTIALLY INTIFYG S SPEAKERS AS "RACE TRAORS". BENT'S EXPLORATN OF CHAVS AS TURNATS TOWARDS THEIR OWN WHENS PLAC THEM AN ANOMALO POSN OF EXCLN, AS “OTHER” WHE WORKG-CLASS PEOPLE. A GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH FOR CHAV NDUCTED ON 8TH JULY 2020 YIELD, 198 OF THE FIRST 200 IMAG, THE PICTUR OF WHE YOUTH. IN POPULAR CULTURE, CHAVS ARE VARIABLY WHE, AS SEEN SHOWS SUCH AS LTLE BRA, THE CATHERE TATE SHOW AND, ARGUABLY, ALSO PL ABBOTT’S SHAMELS. THERE IS NO QUTN, HOWEVER, THAT WHENS IS AN ASSUMED AND SENTIAL FACET OF CHAV INTY. EXPLORATNS OF CLASS AND NSUMPTN MAY HELP TO CLARIFY THIS MUDDY NCEPTUALISATN OF ETHNICY AND CHAVS.  CHAVS AS “WRONG” WORKG CLASSCHAV DISURSE HAS BEEN DISCSED AS ADDRSG TENSE CLASS-BASED ABHORRENCE (HAYWARD AND YAR; TYLER). INED, WHILE FOCSG MORE UPON THE NEX BETWEEN CHAVS, CLASS, AND MASCULY, ANOOP NAYAK’S ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACH INTIFI A CLEAR DISTCTN BETWEEN “CHARVER KIDS” (A SLANG TERM FOR CHAV FOUND THE NORTH-EAST OF ENGLAND) AND “REAL GEORDI” (GEORDIE IS A REGNAL TERM INTIFYG HABANTS OM THAT SAME AREA, MOST SPECIFILLY OM NEWSTLE-UPON-TYNE). NAYAK INTIFIED CHAVS AS ROUGH, VLENT AND IMPOVERISHED, AGAST THE RPECTABLE, SKILLED AND UPWARDLY MOBILE WORKG-CLASS EMBODIED BY THE “REAL GEORDI” (825). SIAR DISTCTNS BETWEEN DIFFERENT TYP OF WORKG CLASS APPEAR THE WORK OF SUMI HOLLGWORTH AND KATYA WILLIAMS. IN A STUDY OF WHE, MIDDLE-CLASS STUNTS OM ENGLISH URBAN STATE PREHENSIVE SCHOOLS RIVERSI AND NORTON, THE THORS FOUND THAT “CHAV TO REPRENT EVERYTHG ABOUT WHENS THAT THE MIDDLE-CLASS ARE NOT” (479). HERE, CHAV IS DISCSED AS A LABEL THAT SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN RERVE FOR “OTHERS”, NAMELY WORKG-CLASS PEERS WHO STAND OUT BEE OF THEIR CLOTHG, THEIR BEHAVUR, AND THEIR TNAL ASPIRATNS. ALTERY IS A NCEPT RERCED BY BENT’S DISCSN OF CHAVSPEAK, AS HE REMARKS THAT “CHAVS ARE OTHER PEOPLE, AND CHAVSPEAK IS HOW OTHER PEOPLE TALK” (8). THE SAME POSN IS ECHOED SARAH SPENCER, JUDY CLEGG, AND JOY STACKHOE’S STUDY OF THE TERPLAY BETWEEN LANGUAGE, SOCIAL CLASS, AND TN YOUNGER GENERATNS.  CHAVSPOTTG IS THE FOC OF BENT’S EXPLORATN OF LIVED CLASS EXPERIENC. HERE, THE EVOTN OF THE CHAV IS SEEN AS A WAY TO RERCE AND REPRODUCE DOMANT RHETORIC AGAST THE POOR. BENT DISCS THE WAYS WHICH WEBS SUCH AS ED TOWNS, CI AND SHOPPG CENTR AS IAL LOTNS TO PRACTICE CHAV-SPOTTG. WHAT IS EVINT, HOWEVER, IS THAT BEHD CHAVSPOTTG LI THE NEED FOR RENTEXTUALISATN OF NORMALISG SOCIAL PRACTIC WHICH VOLVE INTIFITN OF TERMATE SOCIAL GROUPS SOCIAL SPAC. THIS FDG IS SUPPORTED BY THE TERVIEWS NDUCTED BY KEN MCCULLOCK ET AL (548) WHO FOUND THE CHAV LABEL, ALONG WH S REGNAL VARIANT OF CHARVA, TO BE AN EXTENSN OF THE SOCIAL PRACTIC OF INTIFITN, AS WAS APPLIED TO PEOPLE OF LOWER SOCENOMIC STAT AS A MARKER OF DIFFERENCE: “CHAV/CHARVA … ’S WHAT MORE POSH PEOPLE E TO TRY AND SCRIBE THUGS AND THAT” (MCCULLOCH ET AL., 552).THE SEMI-STCTURED TERVIEW DATA GATHERED BY SPENCER, CLEGG, AND STACKHOE REVEALS HOW THE LABEL OF CHAV TRICKLED DOWN OM STEREOTYP POPULAR CULTURE TO THE REAL-LIFE EXPERIENC OF SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN. HERE, CHAVS ARE LIKENED BY SCHOOL CHILDREN TO ANIMALS, “THE BOYS ARE LIKE MONKEYS, AND THE GIRLS ARE LIKE SQUEAKY SQUIRRELS WHO LIKE TO SLAP PEOPLE IF THEY EVEN LOOK AT YOU” (136) AND THEIR LANGUAGE IS FED AS LACKG PLEXY. IT BEARS RELEVANCE THAT, THE TERVIEWS, CHILDREN MIDDLE-CLASS AREAS ARE ONCE AGA “OTHERG” THE CHAV, APPLYG THE LABEL TO CHILDREN OM WORKG-CLASS AREAS. HEENEY’S DISCSN OF THE CHAV PIVOTS AROUND QUTNS OF CLASS AND RACE. THIS IS PARTICULARLY EVINT AS SHE ADDRS THE MEDIA NTENTN SURROUNDG GLAMOUR MOL KATIE PRICE, AND HER RECEIPT OF DISABILY WELFARE BENEFS FOR HER SON.  ETHNICY AND CLASS ARE KEY AMIC DISCSN OF THE CHAV, AND THIS NTEXT THEY PROVE TO BE TERWOVEN AND EXORABLY SLIPPERY. JT AS PREV AMIC DISCSNS SURROUNDG ETHNICY CHALLENGE ASSUMPTNS AROUND WHENS, PRIVILEGE AND DISCRIMATN, AN EQUALLY LABYRTHE PICTURE IS DRAWN ON THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN CLASS AND THE CHAVS, AND ON THE PRACTIC OF EXCLN AND SYMBOLIC TO WHICH THEY ARE SUBJECT. CHAVS AS “WRONG” CONSUMERSKEH HAYWARD AND MAJID YAR’S MUCH-CED WORK POTS TO A RETHKG OF THE UNRCLASS NCEPT (MURRAY) THROUGH BAT OF SOCIAL MARGALY AND NSUMPTN PRACTIC. UNLIKE PREV SOC-CULTURAL FORMATNS (SUBCULTUR), CHAVS SHOULD NOT BE VIEWED AS THE RULT OF SOCIETY CHOOSG TO “REJECT OR VERT MASTREAM ASPIRATNS OR SIR” BUT SIMPLY AS “FLAWED” NSUMERS (HAYWARD AND YAR, 18). THE THORS REMARKED THAT THE NEGATIVE SOCIAL NSTCTN AND VILIFITN OF CHAV N BE ATTRIBUTED TO “A SET OF NARROW AND SEEMGLY IRRATNAL AND UN-ATHETIC NSUMER CHOIC” (18). CHAVS ARE DISCSED AS LACKG TASTE AND/OR TNAL/TELLIGENCE (CULTURAL PAL), AND NOT ENOMIC PAL (BOURDI): IS THE FORMER AND NOT THE LATTER THAT MAK THEM THE OBJECT OF RIDICULE AND SRN. CHAV NSUMPTN CHOIC ARE OFTEN REGARD, AND REPORTED, AS THE WRONG E OF ENOMIC PAL. MATTHEW ADAMS AND JAYNE RASBOROUGH ALSO DISCS THE WAYS WHICH CULTURAL S OF REPRENTATN--NEWSPAPERS, WEBS, TELEVISN--ACHIEVE A LEVEL OF UNIFORMY THEIR PORTRAYAL OF CHAVS AS OUT OF PLACE AND NTUALLY AMED AS “WRONG NSUMERS", JT AS NAYAK DID. IN THEIR ARGUMENT, THEY ALSO NOTE HOW CHAVS HAVE BEEN TERTEXTUALLY REPRENTED AS S OF BODILY DISCRETN RELATN TO BEHAVURS, LIFTYL AND NSUMPTN CHOIC. IT IS THE FLAWED NSUMPTN CHOIC THAT PL JOHNSON DISCS RELATN TO THE PLEX WAYS WHICH THE CHAV STEREOTYPE, AND THEIR NSUMPTN CHOIC, ARE BOTH EROTICISED AND SUBJECTED TO A FORM OF SYMBOLIC VLENCE. WH THIS NTEXT, “COUNCIL CHIC” HAS BEEN MARKETED AND PACKAGED TOWARDS GAY MEN THROUGH THEMED CLUB EVENTS, MERCHANDISE, SEX L AND RT SERVIC. THE SIGNIFIERS OF FLAWED NSUMPTN (BRAND SPORTSWEAR, JEWELLERY, ETC), UPON WHICH MUCH OF THE CHAV-BASED SUBJUGATN IS CENTRED TH BEE A HOOK TO PROMOTE AND SELL SEXUAL SERVIC. AS SUCH, THIS PROCS SUBJECTS CHAVS TO A FORM OF SYMBOLIC VLENCE, AS THEIR WORTH IS FETISHISED, MODIFIED, AND FURTHER DIMISHED GAY CULTURE. THE IMPORTANCE OF NSUMPTN CHOIC AND, MORE SPECIFILLY, OF CHOIC WHICH ARE NSIRED TO BE "WRONG" ADDS ONE FAL PIECE TO THIS MAP OF THE CHAV (MASON AND WIGLEY). WHAT WAS ALREADY NOTED AS DISCRIMATN TOWARDS CHAVS CENTRED UPON NOTNS OF CLASS, SOCENOMIC STAT, AND, ETHNICY, IS AMPLIFIED BY EMPHASIS ON NSUMPTN CHOIC EMED TO BE ATHETILLY UNSIRABLE. THIS ALL TOGETHER THROUGH THE “OTHERG” OF A PATTERN OF NSUMERIST CHOIC THAT ENPASS BRAND CLOTH, SPORTSWEAR AND OTHER GARMENTS TYPILLY LABELLED AS "CHAVVY". CHAV: NOT ALWAYS A LABEL
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INTRODUCTN“CHAV” IS A SOCIAL PHENOMENON THAT GAED SIGNIFINT POPULAR MEDIA VERAGE AND ATTENTN THE UNED KGDOM THE EARLY 2000S. CHAVS ARE OFTEN CHARACTERISED, BY OTHERS, AS YOUNG PEOPLE OM A BACKGROUND OF LOW SOCENOMIC STAT, UALLY CLOTHED BRAND SPORTSWEAR. ALL FNS OF CHAV POSN THEM AS CULTURALLY ANOMALO, AS OTHER.THIS ARTICLE MAPS OUT A MULTIDISCIPLARY FN OF THE CHAV, SYNTHISED OM 21 PUBLISHED AMIC PUBLITNS: THREE RECURRENT THEM SCHOLARLY DISCSN EMERGE. FIRST, THIS REARCH PRENTS WHENS AS AN ASSUMED AND SENTIAL FACET OF CHAV INTY. WHEN MARGALISG CHAVS BEE OF THEIR “RRECT WHENS”, THE WORKS ASSIGN THEM A PROBLEMATIC AND PLEX RELATNSHIP WH ETHNICY AND RACE. SEND, CHAV DISURSE HAS PREVLY BEEN DISCSED AS A FORM OF TENSE CLASS-BASED ABHORRENCE. CHAVS, WOULD SEEM, ARE PERCEIVED AS ANOMALO BY THEIR OWN CLASS AND THOSE WHO EM THEMSELV OF A HIGHER SOCENOMIC STAT. FALLY, CHAVS’ NSUMPTN CHOIC ARE EXPLORED AS AMPLIFYG SUCH NEGATIVE NSTCTNS OF CLASS AND WHE ETHNIC INTI, WHICH ARE EMED AS FORMG AN UNSIRABLE ATHETIC. THIS PIECE IS NOT TEND TO BATE WHETHER OR NOT CHAV IS A SUBCULTURE, CLUBCULTURE OR NEOTRIBE. ALTHOUGH GREG MART’S DISCSN AROUND THE SIARI BETWEEN HISTORIL SUBCULTUR AND CHAVS REMAS PERTENT AND NVCG, THIS ARTICLE DISCS HOW YOUNG PEOPLE LABELLED AS CHAVS ARE EXCLUD ON A VARIETY OF ONTS. IT DRAWS A CROSS-DISCIPLARY MAPPG OF THE CHAV, PROVIDG THE BEGNGS OF A FN OF A ROGATORY LABEL, APPLIED TO YOUNG PEOPLE MARKG THEM ANOMALO BRISH SOCIETY.WHAT IS A CHAV?THE WORD CHAV BEME OFFICIALLY CLUD THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE THE UK 2003, WHEN WAS DUCTED TO THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTNARY (OED). THE CURRENT OED ENTRY OFFERS MANY POTS FOR FURTHER DISCSN, ALL CENTRED UPON A DISCRIMATORY POSNG OF CHAV:CHAV, N. ETYMOLOGY: PROBABLY EHER < ROMANI čHAVO UNMARRIED ROMANI MALE, MALE ROMANI CHILD (SEE CHAVVY N.), OR SHORTENED < EHER CHAVVY N. OR S ETYMON ANGLOROMANI CHAVVY. BR. SLANG (ROGATORY). IN THE UNED KGDOM (ORIGALLY THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND): A YOUNG PERSON OF A TYPE CHARACTERIZED BY BRASH AND LOUTISH BEHAVUR AND THE WEARG OF SIGNER-STYLE CLOTH (P. SPORTSWEAR); UALLY WH NNOTATNS OF A LOW SOCIAL STAT.CHAV WAS ADOPTED BY BRISH NATNAL MEDIA AS A TCH-ALL TERM ENPASSG REGNAL VARIANTS. MANY DISCSNS HAVE LIKENED CHAV TO GROUPS SUCH AS “BOGANS” ATRALIA AND “TRAILER TRASH” THE US. WEBS SUCH AS URBANDICTNARY AND CHAVSCUM HAVE OFTEN, RMALLY, FED CHAV THROUGH A SERI OF ROGATORY “BACKCRONYMS” SUCH AS COUNCIL HOED AND VLENT OR COUNCIL HOE ASSOCIATED VERM, POSNG AS A ROGATORY SOCIAL LABEL SYNONYMO WH NOTNS OF PERCEIVED CRIMALY, POVERTY, POOR TASTE, DANGER, FEAR, CLASS, AND WHENS.CHAV ME TO REAL PROMENCE THE EARLY 2000S MASTREAM BRISH MEDIA, GAG VISIBILY THROUGH TELEVISN SHOWS SUCH AS SHAMELS (2004-2013), LTLE BRA (2003-2006), AND THE CATHERE TATE SHOW (2004-2009). THE TERM EXPLOD ACROSS THE TABLOID PRS, AS NOTED BY ANTOETTE RENOUF 2005. EXTENSIVE TABLOID PRS VERAGE DROVE THE PHENOMENON TO ONT-PAGE VERAGE TIME MAGAZE 2008. CHAVS WERE OBSERVED AS OFTEN WEARG BURBERRY CHECK-PATTERNED CLOTHG. FOR THE FIRST TIME SCE S FOUNDG 1856, AND DUE TO THE EXTENT OF CHAV’S NEGATIVE MEDIA VERAGE, BURBERRY CID TO LARGELY REMOVE S TRAMARK CHECK PATTERN BETWEEN 2001 AND 2014 OM SALE. CHAVS AMIATHE BRIC OF THE CHAV DID NOT EMERGE AMIA WH THE SAME VIGOUR AS DID POPULAR MEDIA, FAILG TO GA THE VISIBILY OF PREV YOUTH SOCIAL FORMATNS SUCH AS PUNKS, MODS, ET AL. RATHER, THERE HAS BEEN A MOST BUT NSISTENT NUMBER OF AMIC PUBLITNS DISCSG THIS SUBJECT: 1-3 PUBLITNS PER YEAR, PUBLISHED BETWEEN 2006-2015.  OF THE 22 AMIC TEXTS EXPLICLY ADDRSG AND DISCSG CHAVS, NONE WERE PUBLISHED PRR TO 2006. EXTENSIVE SEARCH ON DATABAS SUCH AS EBSCO, JSTOR AND PROQUT, YIELD NO FURTHER AMIC PUBLITNS ON THIS SUBJECT SCE JOANNE HEENEY’S 2015 DISCSN OF CHAV AND S RELATNSHIP TO NTTED NCEPTUALISATNS OF DISABILY.FROM A REVIEW OF THE AVAILABLE LERATURE, THE FOLLOWG KEY THEMATIC GROUPGS N THROUGH THE PUBLITNS: CHAVS’ EMBODIMENT OF A "WRONG" TYPE OF WHE INTY; THEIR EMBODIMENT OF A "WRONG" TYPE OF WORKG-CLASS INTY; AND FALLY, THEIR PICTN AS FLAWED NSUMERS. I WILL NOW DISCS THE GROUPGS, AND THEIR IMPLITNS FOR FUTURE REARCH, ORR TO CHART A MULTIDISCIPLARY NCEPTUALISATN OF THE CHAV. ULTIMATELY, MY DISCSN WILL EVINCE HOW "OUT OF PLACE" CHAVS APPEAR TO BE TERMS OF RACE AND ETHNICY, CLASS, AND NSUMPTN CHOIC.  CHAVS AS “WRONG” WHTHE DIVIDG PRACTIC (FOUULT) EVINT UK POPULAR MEDIA AND WEBS SUCH AS URBANDICTNARY THE EARLY 2000S DISTCTLY SEPARATED “HYPERVISIBLE ‘FILTHY WH’” (TYLER) OM THE “RPECTABLE WHENS” OF THE BRISH MIDDLE-CLASS. AS IMOGEN TYLER PUTS , “THE CUMULATIVE EFFECT OF THIS DISGT IS THE BLOCKG OF THE DISENANCHISED WHE POOR OM VIEW; THEY ARE RENRED VISIBLE AND PREHENSIBLE”, A PERSPECTIVE REVISED RELATN TO THE "CELEBRY CHAV" BY TYLER AND JOE BENT. IN A WIR DISCSN OF ETHNICY, SEGREGATN AND DISCRIMATN, COL WEBSTER DISCS CHAV AND “WHE TRASH”, WH THE NTEXT OF DISURS THAT CRIMALISE CERTA FORMS OF WHENS. THE NSPICUO ABSENCE OF WHENS BAT REGARDG FAIR REPRENTATN OF ETHNICY AND EXCLN IS HIGHLIGHTED HERE, AS IS THE DIFFICULTY THAT SOCIAL SCIENC OFTEN ENUNTER NCEPTUALISG WHENS TERMS EXCEEDG PRIVILEGE, SUPERRY, POWER, AND NORMALY.  BENT DISCS CHAVSPEAK, AS A LANGUAGE NCEIVED AS ENACTG BATNS OF WELL-KNOWN SOCLGUISTIC STEREOTYP. CHAVSPEAK RIV OM AN AMALGAMATN OF BLACK ENGLISH VERNACULARS, POTENTIALLY INTIFYG S SPEAKERS AS "RACE TRAORS". BENT'S EXPLORATN OF CHAVS AS TURNATS TOWARDS THEIR OWN WHENS PLAC THEM AN ANOMALO POSN OF EXCLN, AS “OTHER” WHE WORKG-CLASS PEOPLE. A GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH FOR CHAV NDUCTED ON 8TH JULY 2020 YIELD, 198 OF THE FIRST 200 IMAG, THE PICTUR OF WHE YOUTH. IN POPULAR CULTURE, CHAVS ARE VARIABLY WHE, AS SEEN SHOWS SUCH AS LTLE BRA, THE CATHERE TATE SHOW AND, ARGUABLY, ALSO PL ABBOTT’S SHAMELS. THERE IS NO QUTN, HOWEVER, THAT WHENS IS AN ASSUMED AND SENTIAL FACET OF CHAV INTY. EXPLORATNS OF CLASS AND NSUMPTN MAY HELP TO CLARIFY THIS MUDDY NCEPTUALISATN OF ETHNICY AND CHAVS.  CHAVS AS “WRONG” WORKG CLASSCHAV DISURSE HAS BEEN DISCSED AS ADDRSG TENSE CLASS-BASED ABHORRENCE (HAYWARD AND YAR; TYLER). INED, WHILE FOCSG MORE UPON THE NEX BETWEEN CHAVS, CLASS, AND MASCULY, ANOOP NAYAK’S ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACH INTIFI A CLEAR DISTCTN BETWEEN “CHARVER KIDS” (A SLANG TERM FOR CHAV FOUND THE NORTH-EAST OF ENGLAND) AND “REAL GEORDI” (GEORDIE IS A REGNAL TERM INTIFYG HABANTS OM THAT SAME AREA, MOST SPECIFILLY OM NEWSTLE-UPON-TYNE). NAYAK INTIFIED CHAVS AS ROUGH, VLENT AND IMPOVERISHED, AGAST THE RPECTABLE, SKILLED AND UPWARDLY MOBILE WORKG-CLASS EMBODIED BY THE “REAL GEORDI” (825). SIAR DISTCTNS BETWEEN DIFFERENT TYP OF WORKG CLASS APPEAR THE WORK OF SUMI HOLLGWORTH AND KATYA WILLIAMS. IN A STUDY OF WHE, MIDDLE-CLASS STUNTS OM ENGLISH URBAN STATE PREHENSIVE SCHOOLS RIVERSI AND NORTON, THE THORS FOUND THAT “CHAV TO REPRENT EVERYTHG ABOUT WHENS THAT THE MIDDLE-CLASS ARE NOT” (479). HERE, CHAV IS DISCSED AS A LABEL THAT SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN RERVE FOR “OTHERS”, NAMELY WORKG-CLASS PEERS WHO STAND OUT BEE OF THEIR CLOTHG, THEIR BEHAVUR, AND THEIR TNAL ASPIRATNS. ALTERY IS A NCEPT RERCED BY BENT’S DISCSN OF CHAVSPEAK, AS HE REMARKS THAT “CHAVS ARE OTHER PEOPLE, AND CHAVSPEAK IS HOW OTHER PEOPLE TALK” (8). THE SAME POSN IS ECHOED SARAH SPENCER, JUDY CLEGG, AND JOY STACKHOE’S STUDY OF THE TERPLAY BETWEEN LANGUAGE, SOCIAL CLASS, AND TN YOUNGER GENERATNS.  CHAVSPOTTG IS THE FOC OF BENT’S EXPLORATN OF LIVED CLASS EXPERIENC. HERE, THE EVOTN OF THE CHAV IS SEEN AS A WAY TO RERCE AND REPRODUCE DOMANT RHETORIC AGAST THE POOR. BENT DISCS THE WAYS WHICH WEBS SUCH AS ED TOWNS, CI AND SHOPPG CENTR AS IAL LOTNS TO PRACTICE CHAV-SPOTTG. WHAT IS EVINT, HOWEVER, IS THAT BEHD CHAVSPOTTG LI THE NEED FOR RENTEXTUALISATN OF NORMALISG SOCIAL PRACTIC WHICH VOLVE INTIFITN OF TERMATE SOCIAL GROUPS SOCIAL SPAC. THIS FDG IS SUPPORTED BY THE TERVIEWS NDUCTED BY KEN MCCULLOCK ET AL (548) WHO FOUND THE CHAV LABEL, ALONG WH S REGNAL VARIANT OF CHARVA, TO BE AN EXTENSN OF THE SOCIAL PRACTIC OF INTIFITN, AS WAS APPLIED TO PEOPLE OF LOWER SOCENOMIC STAT AS A MARKER OF DIFFERENCE: “CHAV/CHARVA … ’S WHAT MORE POSH PEOPLE E TO TRY AND SCRIBE THUGS AND THAT” (MCCULLOCH ET AL., 552).THE SEMI-STCTURED TERVIEW DATA GATHERED BY SPENCER, CLEGG, AND STACKHOE REVEALS HOW THE LABEL OF CHAV TRICKLED DOWN OM STEREOTYP POPULAR CULTURE TO THE REAL-LIFE EXPERIENC OF SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN. HERE, CHAVS ARE LIKENED BY SCHOOL CHILDREN TO ANIMALS, “THE BOYS ARE LIKE MONKEYS, AND THE GIRLS ARE LIKE SQUEAKY SQUIRRELS WHO LIKE TO SLAP PEOPLE IF THEY EVEN LOOK AT YOU” (136) AND THEIR LANGUAGE IS FED AS LACKG PLEXY. IT BEARS RELEVANCE THAT, THE TERVIEWS, CHILDREN MIDDLE-CLASS AREAS ARE ONCE AGA “OTHERG” THE CHAV, APPLYG THE LABEL TO CHILDREN OM WORKG-CLASS AREAS. HEENEY’S DISCSN OF THE CHAV PIVOTS AROUND QUTNS OF CLASS AND RACE. THIS IS PARTICULARLY EVINT AS SHE ADDRS THE MEDIA NTENTN SURROUNDG GLAMOUR MOL KATIE PRICE, AND HER RECEIPT OF DISABILY WELFARE BENEFS FOR HER SON.  ETHNICY AND CLASS ARE KEY AMIC DISCSN OF THE CHAV, AND THIS NTEXT THEY PROVE TO BE TERWOVEN AND EXORABLY SLIPPERY. JT AS PREV AMIC DISCSNS SURROUNDG ETHNICY CHALLENGE ASSUMPTNS AROUND WHENS, PRIVILEGE AND DISCRIMATN, AN EQUALLY LABYRTHE PICTURE IS DRAWN ON THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN CLASS AND THE CHAVS, AND ON THE PRACTIC OF EXCLN AND SYMBOLIC TO WHICH THEY ARE SUBJECT. CHAVS AS “WRONG” CONSUMERSKEH HAYWARD AND MAJID YAR’S MUCH-CED WORK POTS TO A RETHKG OF THE UNRCLASS NCEPT (MURRAY) THROUGH BAT OF SOCIAL MARGALY AND NSUMPTN PRACTIC. UNLIKE PREV SOC-CULTURAL FORMATNS (SUBCULTUR), CHAVS SHOULD NOT BE VIEWED AS THE RULT OF SOCIETY CHOOSG TO “REJECT OR VERT MASTREAM ASPIRATNS OR SIR” BUT SIMPLY AS “FLAWED” NSUMERS (HAYWARD AND YAR, 18). THE THORS REMARKED THAT THE NEGATIVE SOCIAL NSTCTN AND VILIFITN OF CHAV N BE ATTRIBUTED TO “A SET OF NARROW AND SEEMGLY IRRATNAL AND UN-ATHETIC NSUMER CHOIC” (18). CHAVS ARE DISCSED AS LACKG TASTE AND/OR TNAL/TELLIGENCE (CULTURAL PAL), AND NOT ENOMIC PAL (BOURDI): IS THE FORMER AND NOT THE LATTER THAT MAK THEM THE OBJECT OF RIDICULE AND SRN. CHAV NSUMPTN CHOIC ARE OFTEN REGARD, AND REPORTED, AS THE WRONG E OF ENOMIC PAL. MATTHEW ADAMS AND JAYNE RASBOROUGH ALSO DISCS THE WAYS WHICH CULTURAL S OF REPRENTATN--NEWSPAPERS, WEBS, TELEVISN--ACHIEVE A LEVEL OF UNIFORMY THEIR PORTRAYAL OF CHAVS AS OUT OF PLACE AND NTUALLY AMED AS “WRONG NSUMERS", JT AS NAYAK DID. IN THEIR ARGUMENT, THEY ALSO NOTE HOW CHAVS HAVE BEEN TERTEXTUALLY REPRENTED AS S OF BODILY DISCRETN RELATN TO BEHAVURS, LIFTYL AND NSUMPTN CHOIC. IT IS THE FLAWED NSUMPTN CHOIC THAT PL JOHNSON DISCS RELATN TO THE PLEX WAYS WHICH THE CHAV STEREOTYPE, AND THEIR NSUMPTN CHOIC, ARE BOTH EROTICISED AND SUBJECTED TO A FORM OF SYMBOLIC VLENCE. WH THIS NTEXT, “COUNCIL CHIC” HAS BEEN MARKETED AND PACKAGED TOWARDS GAY MEN THROUGH THEMED CLUB EVENTS, MERCHANDISE, SEX L AND RT SERVIC. THE SIGNIFIERS OF FLAWED NSUMPTN (BRAND SPORTSWEAR, JEWELLERY, ETC), UPON WHICH MUCH OF THE CHAV-BASED SUBJUGATN IS CENTRED TH BEE A HOOK TO PROMOTE AND SELL SEXUAL SERVIC. AS SUCH, THIS PROCS SUBJECTS CHAVS TO A FORM OF SYMBOLIC VLENCE, AS THEIR WORTH IS FETISHISED, MODIFIED, AND FURTHER DIMISHED GAY CULTURE. THE IMPORTANCE OF NSUMPTN CHOIC AND, MORE SPECIFILLY, OF CHOIC WHICH ARE NSIRED TO BE "WRONG" ADDS ONE FAL PIECE TO THIS MAP OF THE CHAV (MASON AND WIGLEY). WHAT WAS ALREADY NOTED AS DISCRIMATN TOWARDS CHAVS CENTRED UPON NOTNS OF CLASS, SOCENOMIC STAT, AND, ETHNICY, IS AMPLIFIED BY EMPHASIS ON NSUMPTN CHOIC EMED TO BE ATHETILLY UNSIRABLE. THIS ALL TOGETHER THROUGH THE “OTHERG” OF A PATTERN OF NSUMERIST CHOIC THAT ENPASS BRAND CLOTH, SPORTSWEAR AND OTHER GARMENTS TYPILLY LABELLED AS "CHAVVY". CHAV: NOT ALWAYS A LABEL

He is now a producer and actor of gay porn, who go by the psdonym ‘Hung Young Br’. When I search the word “chav” on an adult ntent se, a piful 904 vios are offered up for my viewg pleasure, whereas the word “leather” brgs up over 27, Mason aka Hung Young BrWhen I thk of other gay guys fetishisg me, I feel empowered by MasonGee believ that the emergence of 'metrosexualy' has spawned a ristance to beg brand a 'chav'. When I thk of other gay guys fetishisg me, I feel empowered by that.

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Disverg that this was a fetish at all, when he started noticg the populary of the ntent he was uploadg to the Inter, is what ma Gee realise his own “chavvy background” uld propel him to pornographic Mason aka Hung Young Br“I realised that was somethg that was sell-able, that, for some reason, a lot of gay guys fetishise .

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“I left bee I was gay, ” Gee found difficult to accept his sexualy.

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”BBC Three - Queer BraGee has worked as a landlord, at teles pani, and has even had his own lumn, ‘Gee’s Secret Sex Diari’, "a pretty big" gay after makg “a ser amount of money” on some of the er-generated vios he had filmed and upload to one of the bigger porn s, he beme more ser about f a chav as “anyone drsed the right clothg who sounds a b ckney” often shoots his vios outdoor lotns to give them a b of a “rough and ready” feel, and tells me that ’s que mon for him to have to “chav” his actors up. ”Gee drs his actors cloth om sports shops which are “luckily que cheap”, and then tri to make their mannerisms “a b more bloke-ish” Mason aka Hung Young Br“A lot of people live ral areas or plac where they don’t have a gay scene, ” he says.

”Pl, he says, “When I go to gay venu now, people are so drsed up all their signer cloth. I thk bee the ‘chav’ look is not available on tap on the gay scene, people are more drawn to . ”It’s not unual for men on gay datg apps to state that they’re only terted ‘mascule men’ or that ‘mp will be ignored’ the allure of chav porn is that stars the sort of macho, hyper-mascule guys many gay men fantasise about.

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”Gee thks “people don’t drs chavvy anymore - straight or gay” and tells me the major porn producers don’t even ter for the fetish. Wh this ntext, “Council chic” has been marketed and packaged towards gay men through themed club events, merchandise, sex l and rt servic. As such, this procs subjects Chavs to a form of symbolic vlence, as their worth is fetishised, modified, and further dimished gay culture.

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They discs how the ‘chav culture’ has been appropriated for gay men. GAY CHAV EROTICLrie Taylor is joed by Pl Johnson, Lecturer Soclogy at the Universy of Surrey and thor of a recent paper Ru Boys: The Homosexual Eroticizatn of Class, published Soclogy, and Jonathan Dollimore, Honorary Profsor at the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissince at the Universy of Ssex to discs how ‘chav culture’ has also been appropriated orr to market a range of products and servic to gay men.