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The English Riots of 2011 A Summer of Discontent Edited by Daniel Briggs WATERSIDE PRESS The English Riots of 2011 A Summer of Discontent Edited by Daniel Briggs The English Riots of 2011 A Summer of Discontent Edited by Daniel Briggs Published 2012 by Telephone +44(0)1256 882250 Waterside Press Ltd E-mail [email protected] Sherfield Gables Online catalogue WatersidePress.co.uk Sherfield on Loddon Hook, Hampshire United Kingdom RG27 0JG ISBN 978-1-904380-88-7 (Paperback) ISBN 978-1-908162-20-5 (Kindle/Epub ebook) ISBN 978-1-908162-21-2 (Adobe ebook) Copyright © 2012 This work is the copyright of Daniel Briggs. Individual chapters are the copyright of the respective contributors. All intellectual property and associated rights are hereby asserted and reserved by them in full compliance with UK, European and interna- tional law. No part of this book may be copied, reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, including in hard copy or via the internet, without the prior written permission of the publishers to whom all such rights have been assigned worldwide. Cover design © 2012 Waterside Press. Design by www.gibgob.com. Photograph of loot- ers: © Tim Hales/AP/Press Association Images. UK distributor Gardners Books, 1 Whittle Drive, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN23 6QH. Tel: +44 (0)1323 521777; [email protected]; www.gardners.com North American distributor International Specialized Book Services (ISBS), 920 NE 58th Ave, Suite 300, Portland, Oregon, 97213-3786, USA. Tel: 1 800 944 6190 Fax 1 503 280 8832; [email protected]; www.isbs.com Cataloguing-In-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book can be obtained from the British Library. Printed by MPG Books Group, Bodmin and King’s Lynn. e-book The English Riots of 2011 is available as an ebook and also to subscribers of Myili- brary and Dawsonera (for ISBNs see above). The English Riots of 2011 A Summer of Discontent Edited by Daniel Briggs WATERSIDE PRESS The English Riots of 2011 ContentS Acknowledgements vii About the editor viii 1. Introduction 9 Daniel Briggs 2. Frustrations, Urban Relations and Temptations: 27 Contextualising the English Riots Daniel Briggs PaRT 1: RIoTIng In ConTexT ________________________________43 3. everything Changes, nothing Moves: 45 The Longue Durée of Social Anxieties about Youth Crime Geoffrey Pearson 4. Riots in Retrospective: 65 Immigration and the Crisis of the ‘Other’ Steven Hirschler 5. With the Benefit of Hindsight: 91 The Disturbances of August 2011 in Historical Context tim Bateman 6. Revisiting Brixton: 111 The War on Babylon 1981 Sheldon thomas 7. More Police, Less Safety? 127 Policing as a Causal Factor in the Outbreak of Riots and Public Disturbances Axel Klein iv Edited by Daniel Briggs PaRT 2: WHo, HoW and WHy? ______________________________ 147 8. gone Shopping: 149 Inarticulate Politics in the English Riots of 2011 Simon Winlow and Steve Hall 9. Policing the Riots: 169 New Social Media as Recruitment, Resistance, and Surveillance Stephanie Alice Baker 10. Street government: 193 The Role of the Urban Street Gang in the London Riots Simon Harding 11. Reading the Riots Through gender: 215 A Feminist Reflection on England’s 2011 Riots Liz Kelly and Aisha K. Gill PaRT 3: THe aFTeRMaTH ___________________________________ 235 12. ‘There are none Sicker Than the edL’: 237 Narratives of Racialisation and Resentment from Whitehall and Eltham, London Joel Busher 13. From Words of action to the action of Words: 257 Politics, Post-riot Rhetoric and Contractual Governance Vicky Heap and Hannah Smithson 14. Profiling the ‘Rioters’: 279 Findings from Manchester Rebecca Clarke v The English Riots of 2011 15. Rurality and the Riots: 303 From the Panel to the Village Pub Steve Briggs PaRT 4: THe WIdeR PICTURe: SoCIaL CHange and gLoBaL dISConTenT _____________________________________ 327 16. State-Sponsored Riot: 329 Tales of Revolt and Crime in Egypt 2011 John Strawson 17. ‘If you Won’t Let Us dream, Then We Won’t Let you Sleep’: 347 Demarcation of Spaces and the Rise of the Spanish 15 M Lorenzo navarréte-Moreno, Celia Díaz-Catalán and Ricardo Zúñiga 18. Post-Modern greek Tragedy: 361 Walking in the Steps of Thucydides in Athens Daniel Briggs 19. Concluding Thoughts 381 Daniel Briggs Index 403 vi Edited by Daniel Briggs ACKnoWLeDGeMentS My first thanks go to David Cameron whose speech branding the rioters’ actions ‘criminality, pure and simple’ was the moment at which I decided to pursue this area as a form of social inquiry. I then have to thank the riot- ers who braved potential arrest to speak to me. Nadia Whitney and Jessica Lartey helped me with access to these people and Joyann Bannon assisted with interview transcriptions. Dan Hales of Barking and Dagenham Youth Offending Service assisted with discussions as well as numerous other court, probation and youth offending workers across London with whom I had informal discussions. A paper based on this data was published for a special issue of Safer Communities early in 2012 (see Vol 11(1)). I was supported by Jo Sharrocks at Emerald Publishers and Professor Chris Fox and Dr Tim Bateman. The book evolved from the special issue and for that reason I extend immense gratitude to all the contributors for working hard within the publishing timeframe to assemble this collection within four months. Bryan Gibson, the Director of Waterside Press, was immensely enthusiastic about this project and has provided immeasurable support. Thanks to Dr. Joel Busher, Professor Simon Winlow and Dr. Steph- anie Alice Baker for reading and commenting on several chapters and also to my father for reviewing my work. I am grateful for the collegial companionship of John Strawson, Barry Heard, Dr. James Windle, Dr. John Morrison and Jennifer Schmidt-Petersen. As always, appreciation and love go to those closest to me: they know who they are and they know what they did. Daniel Briggs August 2012 vii The English Riots of 2011 ABout tHe eDItoR Dr Daniel Briggs is a Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of East London. He works with a range of social groups — from the most vulnerable to the most dangerous to the most misunderstood. His work takes him inside prisons, crack houses, mental health institutions, asylum-seeker institutions, hostels, care homes and hospices, and homeless services. His research interests include social exclusion, culture and deviance, and postmodern identities but more broadly he tends to research any social issues which are stigmatised, misunderstood and/or misrepresented. He has recently undertaken work in Spain on gypsies, youth risk behaviours while on holiday and the English riots of 2011. He is the author of Crack Cocaine Users: High Society and Low Life in South London (Routledge, 2011). Descriptions of the other contributors to this work appear at the start of their individual chapters. viii
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