Reading the Riot Act

Reflections on the 2011 urban disorders in England
Herausgeber: Huq Mp, Rupa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This lively collection presents a multi-disciplinary, multi-perspectival commentary explaining the what, where, and how of the riots that the UK experienced during the long, hot summer of 2011. Locating the riots in historical context by comparing them to the UK riots of 1981 and 2001, it looks at how news cycles and concepts of 'moral panic' have changed in the age of social media. It is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary debates in social policy, media studies, anthropology sociology, cultural studies and human geography. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal for Cultural Research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9781138648388
• ISBN-10: 1138648388
• Artikelnr.: 44032848

Autorenporträt

Rupa Huq was Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Kingston University, UK, from 2004 until her election as Labour MP for Ealing Central and Acton in May 2015. Her previous books include Beyond Subculture: youth, pop and identity in a postcolonial world (Routledge, 2006) and Making Sense of Popular Culture (Bloomsbury, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Suburbia Runs Riot: The UK August 2011 Riots, Neo-Moral
Panic and the End of the English Suburban Dream? 2. Once as History, Twice
as Farce? The Spectre of the Summer of '81 in Discourses on the August 2011
Riots 3. From Cairo to Tottenham: Big Societies, Neoliberal States,
Colonial Utopias 4. Critical Consumers Run Riot in Manchester 5. Regional
Narratives and Post-racial Fantasies in the English Riots 6. Contexts for
Distraction