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Published in: openDemocracyUKReading the riots: one year onA year after the English riots, Miranda Iossifidis and Philippa Thomas review the means by which scholarship and the...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe kids are revolting. But why?
Reflections on the Summer 2011 English Riots one year on: the 'Underclass', welfare retrenchment and workfare regimes.
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Published in: Shine A LightEight months after the English riots: young lives blighted by punitive sentencing
The punitive judicial response to the riots has left a lasting legacy of damage and stigma
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUKUncut: Fortnum and Mason trial B, the farce rolls on - all guilty
A report of the second trial of UK Uncut activists who occuped the high class grocers Fortnum and Masons in March...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFeral savages: post-riot labelling of British Blacks
'Underclass', 'feral', 'feckless': these terms have gained new currency after England's August riots. Although not...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBlack British realities and the return of the ‘underclass’
The re-emergence of a certain vocabulary that stigmatizes the working class, benefit seekers, and the black...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKVideo: Tottenham residents give their take on the riots
A new independent documentary tells the story of last month's riots in Tottenham from the point of view of local...
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Published in: Shine A Light'Fuck the police!' Working-class youth and the routine abuse of power
For many, the 'boys in blue' are a brutal force who use their powers to punish and wreak revenge. England's riots...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWe'll 'fix Broken Britain' through more emphasis on human rights, not less
After England's riots, the Prime Minister has pledged to replace the Human Rights Act with "our own British bill of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCan we rely on the Lib Dems to defend the role of human rights in Britain?
David Cameron pledged in the wake of England's riots to address the country's 'rights not responsibilities' culture....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAs the trial of 9 UK Uncut activists begins, Britain's right to protest is also in the docks
Today the trial of nine UK Uncut activists begins. They had superglued themselves to Topshop last year in protest...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAnatomy of a Networked Riot: rapid violence, rapid response
Social networking has come under fire since England's week of riots and looting. But the same tools that facilitated...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK"The Game is Up": Unrest, Policing and the War on the Underclass
Ten years after 9/11, the 'War on Terror' in Britain is being replaced by a 'War on the Underclass' as exceptional...
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Published in: Shine A LightResisting the Riot Fearmongers: lessons from 1958 and beyond
As right wing commentators channel Enoch Powell, Steven Hirschler counts the human cost of misdiagnosing civil unrest
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Police, Notting Hill Carnival and the Permanent 'State of Exception'Notting Hill Carnival - despite predictions of disorder after London's riots - was hailed as 'peaceful' and a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Time We Live
What might we hope for from life? Watching the London riots from afar John Berger finds a small passport that lets...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWill the riots alter how Britain perceives its Muslim communities?
The riots and their aftermath invoked both shame and pride in England. Many members of the Islamic and other...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKClubs and Street Corners: how London's youth are criminalised for using public space
Before the riots, young people growing up in poverty in London faced the threat of criminalisation. Now, living...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRioting youth? Blame the baby boomers and the state they created
Britain's baby boomers gave little thought to the next generation, while the state has gradually abrogated its...
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Published in: Shine A LightSandwiches, Red Bull and Public Support: police officers talk about England's riotsA fortnight after a peaceful protest against the shooting dead of Mark Duggan sparked four days of rioting across...
