The English Riots Of 2011 : A Summer of Discontent.

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.

From Facebook, Twitter, BlackBerry and gossip to hard facts, research and empirical investigation, this outstanding collection looks at the nature and causes of the English Riots of 2011 one year after they occurred.

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