Seeing Red: Entropy, Property, and Resistance in the Summer Riots 2011

Finchett-Maddock, Lucy

doi:10.1007/s10978-012-9111-z

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“…The years since 2011 have seen the emergence of a substantial body of research on the unrest, from sociologists, criminologists, urban scholars (Millington, 2016), psychologists (Reicher, 2011; Stott & Reicher, 2011), geographers (Baudains et al, 2013), economists (Bell et al, 2014) and legal scholars (Banakar & Lort Phillips, 2014; Lightowlers, 2015; Roberts & Hough, 2013; Sokhi-Bulley, 2016), alongside less obvious disciplines such as psychiatry (Aiello & Pariante, 2013), psychoanalytic theory (Finchett-Maddock, 2012; Lowe, 2013), computing (Tonkin et al, 2012) and public health (McKee & Raine, 2011) and a number of cross-disciplinary and collaborative projects (Lewis et al, 2011). Among the diversity of theoretical perspectives proffered to explain the disturbances, some recurring themes can be traced.…”

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Amnesia and the erasure of structural racism in criminal justice professionals’ accounts of the 2011 English disturbances

Peacock

2023

The Sociological Review

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Though the 2011 ‘riots’ attracted a huge amount of political, media and academic attention, the state’s punitive reaction to the unrest received far less analysis, despite being characterised by exceptionally harsh practices at every stage from arrest to sentencing. Drawing on interviews with criminal justice professionals who were at the heart of this response, and focusing in particular on the Crown Prosecution Service’s unusually punitive approach, this article examines the imaginations, assumptions and claims that allowed professionals to variously justify and problematise this vindictive backlash. The article shows how an imagination of the disturbances as an apolitical and unprecedented outbreak of violence was central to many professionals’ accounts. Yet this imagination, I contend, requires significant erasure and elision. Forgetting England’s long history of unrest, and ignoring or dismissing the police killing of Mark Duggan that immediately precipitated the disturbances, were vitally important in allowing professionals to ignore the vital connections between the unrest and entrenched structural racism that has consistently underpinned post-war urban unrest – and to position the harsh law and order response as reasonable, proportionate, necessary and adequate. In doing so, the article makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the unrest, and on the importance of amnesia and ignorance - conceived as active, collective and inherently political processes - in normalising punitive and discriminatory state practices, both in the wake of the riots and in their longer aftermath.

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Amnesia and the erasure of structural racism in criminal justice professionals’ accounts of the 2011 English disturbances

Peacock

2023

The Sociological Review

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“…Prichard, 2011) and law (e.g. Finchett-Maddock, 2012), who face far bigger hurdles and far stauncher orthodoxies.…”

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The shape of geography to come

Ince

2014

Dialogues in Human Geography

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In this commentary, I offer a constructive critique of certain elements of Springer's (2014) paper, from an anarchist-geographic perspective. I welcome his paper in bringing to light some of the more politically problematic elements of (orthodox) Marxist thought, and raising important points about the practicalities of social change, but he does so in a rather binaristic manner. Accordingly, I address several elements of Springer's characterisation of both anarchism and Marxism-especially on political organisation and praxis-in order to nuance some of his arguments and draw out broader lessons for radical geographical scholarship and the future of the radical/revolutionary left in general.

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After riots: Toward a research agenda on the long-term effects of urban unrest

Ince

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Lindell

2021

Journal of Urban Affairs

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Urban societies are experiencing intensified social frictions which have manifested in a growing occurrence of riots. Urban riots are often treated as ephemeral outbursts which create only short-term or immediate responses by the state or residents. However, this paper aims to move beyond such present-centrism by proposing a research agenda for studying their contextually longer-term legacies. Particular consideration is given to three thematic areas: (a) policy responses, (b) temporalities and urban memory, and (c) feelings and subjectivities. Drawing upon empirical illustrations concerning riots in London (2011) and Stockholm (2013), the paper uncovers variations within and across the two cities, such as differing state and private sector interventions; reshaping of civil society; and how residents variously resist, adapt to, and promote change. The paper thus reflects upon how riots' afterlives in different urban contexts are constructed, mobilized and contested. Such variations point to the importance of the situated study of urban riots' diverse legacies.

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Seeing Red: Entropy, Property, and Resistance in the Summer Riots 2011

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

Amnesia and the erasure of structural racism in criminal justice professionals’ accounts of the 2011 English disturbances

Amnesia and the erasure of structural racism in criminal justice professionals’ accounts of the 2011 English disturbances

The shape of geography to come

After riots: Toward a research agenda on the long-term effects of urban unrest

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