The study of those places that people indicate and understand as fear-filled or dangerous (Modly (2000) PHG 24, 3, 365 is worth reading). In a commendable paper, Wilson and Little (2008) Current Issues Tourism 11, 2, 167 observe that ‘fear itself is complexly tied to social expectations and messages, our individual expectations and messages, our gender/class and our capacity, or belief in our capacity, to manage fearful and/or dangerous situations’. See also R. Pain and S. Smith, eds (2008). Paul (2011) Gender Tech. & Develop. 15, 3 411 argues that women’s restricted access to public space in India is a manifestation of socially produced fear.