The English riots of 2011 [[electronic resource] ] : a summer of discontent / / edited by Daniel Briggs

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814042603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hampshire, England, : Waterside Press, c2012
• ISBN: 1-908162-20-1; 1-908162-21-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (427 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BriggsDaniel (Criminologist)
• Disciplina: 303.623
• Soggetti: Riots - England; Great Britain Politics and government 21st century; England Social conditions 21st century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the Editor -- Introduction -- Daniel Briggs -- Frustrations, Urban Relations and Temptations: -- Contextualising the English Riots -- Daniel Briggs -- 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 -- Daniel Briggs -- Concluding Thoughts -- Daniel Briggs -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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