The English riots of 2011 : a summer of discontent / edited by Daniel Briggs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Briggs, Daniel (Criminologist)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Riots--England.

Riots.

Great Britain--Politics and government--21st century.

Great Britain.

England--Social conditions--21st century.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (427 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hampshire, England : Waterside Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rejecting David Cameron's assertion that the riots were 'criminality, pure and simple' the evidence presented in this new book places the disturbances in an economic, global and social context

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

About the Editor

Introduction

Daniel Briggs

Frustrations, Urban Relations and Temptations:

Contextualising the English Riots

Rioting in Context

Everything Changes, Nothing Moves:

The Longue Durée of Social Anxieties about Youth Crime

Geoffrey Pearson

Riots in Retrospective:

Immigration and the Crisis of the 'Other'

Steven Hirschler

With the Benefit of Hindsight:

The Disturbances of August 2011 in Historical Context

Tim Bateman

Revisiting Brixton:

The War on Babylon 1981

Sheldon Thomas

More Police, Less Safety?

Policing as a Causal Factor in the Outbreak of Riots and Public Disturbances

Axel Klein

Who, How and Why?

Gone Shopping:

Inarticulate Politics in the English Riots of 2011

Simon Winlow and Steve Hall

Policing the Riots:

New Social Media as Recruitment, Resistance, and Surveillance

Stephanie Alice Baker

Street Government:

The Role of the Urban Street Gang in the London Riots

Simon Harding

Reading the Riots Through Gender:

A Feminist Reflection on England's 2011 Riots

Liz Kelly and Aisha K. Gill

The Aftermath

'There Are None Sicker Than the EDL':

Narratives of Racialisation and Resentment from Whitehall and Eltham, London

Joel Busher

From Words of Action to the Action of Words:

Politics, Post-riot Rhetoric and Contractual Governance

Vicky Heap and Hannah Smithson

Profiling the 'Rioters':

Findings from Manchester

Rebecca Clarke

Rurality and the Riots:

From the Panel to the Village Pub

Steve Briggs

The Wider Picture: Social Change and Global Discontent

State-Sponsored Riot:

Tales of Revolt and Crime in Egypt 2011

John Strawson

'If You Won't Let Us Dream, Then We Won't Let You Sleep':.

Demarcation of Spaces and the Rise of the Spanish 15 M

Lorenzo Navarréte-Moreno, Celia Díaz-Catalán and Ricardo Zúñiga

Post-Modern Greek Tragedy:

Walking in the Steps of Thucydides in Athens

Concluding Thoughts

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 27, 2013).

ISBN:

9781908162205

1908162201

9781908162212

190816221X

OCLC:

843861804