Shopping for Free? Looting, Consumerism and the 2011 Riots: Fig. 1

Newburn, Tim; Cooper, Kerris; Deacon, Rachel; Diski, Rebekah

doi:10.1093/bjc/azv007

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“…This is not to deny that attacks on the police opened the way to 'consumerist' looting. But even here we agree with Newburn et al (2015) that at times there appears to have been political dimensions to such behaviour in terms of what was looted, how it was looted and how some looting may have been a reflection on policecommunity relations. Nonetheless, our analysis is limited because it is isolated to precipitating events and we have yet to explore the explanatory power of a social identity approach with regard to the 'contagion' of the rioting beyond Tottenham.…”

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confidence: 68%

“…Consequently, the most abundant data source is post hoc accounts, which predominate in the literature (e.g. Guardian/LSE, 2011;Newburn et al, 2015;Treadwell et al, 2013). It is easy to dismiss such accounts on epistemological grounds.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the other, focus is given to background grievances, which it is argued persisted even as the riots spread (Moran & Waddington, 2015;Waddington, 2012). From this perspective both the riots and the looting "needs to be seen through a political lens" (Newburn et al, 2015(Newburn et al, , p. 1000. When it comes to the nature of these grievances, the two prime candidates are racism and poverty.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There are studies using Ministry of Justice statistics to describe global patterns of damage and looting (Ball & Drury, 2012;Newburn, et al, 2015). There are studies that describe the clustering of events (e.g., Baudains et al, 2012;Guardian/LSE, 2011) along with the characteristics of the people that were arrested and convicted for involvement in them (Stanko & Dawson, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…That is why it is encouraging to see recent criminological publications that use the 2011 English riots in order to debate the ways in which contemporary ideologies and political divisions frame criminal activity (e.g. Akram, 2014;Jeffery, Ibrahim & Waddington, 2015;Jeffery & Jackson, 2012;Moran & Waddington, 2015;Moxon, 2011;Newburn, 2015a,b;Newburn et al, 2015;Treadwell et al, 2013). These studies take the voice of rioters seriously and start from the premise that we have much to learn from 'reading the riots'.…”

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confidence: 99%

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On the Role of a Social Identity Analysis in Articulating Structure and Collective Action: The 2011 Riots in Tottenham and Hackney

Stott¹,

Drury²,

Reicher³

2016

The British Journal of Criminology

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Abstract.Theoretical perspectives that give primacy to ideological or structural determinism have dominated criminological analysis of the 2011 English 'riots'. This paper provides an alternative social psychological perspective through detailed empirical analysis of two of these riots. We utilise novel forms of data to build triangulated accounts of the nature of the events and explore the perspectives of participants. We assert these riots cannot be adequately understood merely in terms pre-existing social understandings and political realities and that identity based interactional crowd dynamics were critically important. The paper demonstrates the value of the social identity approach in providing criminological theory with a richer and deeper perspective on these complex social phenomena.3

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confidence: 99%

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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On the Role of a Social Identity Analysis in Articulating Structure and Collective Action: The 2011 Riots in Tottenham and Hackney

Stott¹,

Drury²,

Reicher³

2016

The British Journal of Criminology

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Collective rule-breaking

Krause

Romanczuk

Cracco

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Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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Rioting and the politics of crisis

Murji

2017

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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This paper draws on selected explanatory accounts of rioting that occurred in England in 2011 for the purpose of illustrating the ways in which scholarly critiques frame quite different senses of what kind of 'crisis' the riots represented. On one side the riots are understood within a 'race and policing' frame placing in a line of continuity with events across time and space and in an on-going crisis of racial subjugation. In direct contrast, another side treats the riots as a crisis of post-politics, in which nihilism has replaced purposive political action. While different types of politics are centred in both approaches, they differ remarkably in relation to racism, with the latter treating race as epiphenomenal. These frames are instances of how critical scholarly understandings draw on events, and it is argued they miss potentially far reaching senses of 'crisis' that can be drawn out of some aspects of rioting.

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Shopping for Free? Looting, Consumerism and the 2011 Riots: Fig. 1

Cited by 20 publications

References 23 publications

On the Role of a Social Identity Analysis in Articulating Structure and Collective Action: The 2011 Riots in Tottenham and Hackney

On the Role of a Social Identity Analysis in Articulating Structure and Collective Action: The 2011 Riots in Tottenham and Hackney

Collective rule-breaking

Rioting and the politics of crisis

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