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Riot: Race and Politics in the 2011 Disorders

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  • Karim Murji
  • Sarah Neal

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The 2011 riots have already been the most commented upon riots of recent decades. Casting some doubt about generalised and holistic explanations and responses, we seek to locate the events in a matrix of race, policing and politics. This approach enables us to identify shifts in political discourse around the riots from the simple to the complex, as well as significant changes between how the events of 2011 and earlier riots have been ‘read’. We seek to unravel some of these strands, to show how race, place and political discourse have been located in the reaction to the riots. In drawing attention to important unevenness, we argue that sociologists need to focus on both continuities and changes since the 1980s.

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  • Karim Murji & Sarah Neal, 2011. "Riot: Race and Politics in the 2011 Disorders," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 16(4), pages 216-220, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:16:y:2011:i:4:p:216-220
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.2557
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    1. Sarah Neal, 1998. "Embodying Black Madness, Embodying White Femininity: Populist (Re)Presentations and Public Policy - The Case of Christopher Clunis and Jayne Zito," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 3(4), pages 54-63, December.
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    2. Andrew Wallace, 2012. "The 2011 ‘Riots’: Reflections on the Fall and Rise of Community," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 17(2), pages 1-5, May.
    3. Giorgia Doná & Helen Taylor, 2015. "The ‘Peaks and Troughs’ of Societal Violence: Revisiting the Actions of Turkish and Kurdish Shopkeepers during the 2011 London Riots," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 20(1), pages 83-93, February.

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