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From 'moral panics' to 'broken Britain' and anxieties about youth crime, the book looks at various flashpoints of the riots such as the killing of Mark Duggan by police marksmen, the widespread...
- Individually and Collectively
- Routine Problem
- Precarious Employment
- Mobilising
- Leadership Rifts
- References
Cameron’s position of course contrasts with February 2011, when he was roundly criticised for playing into the hands of extremists when he delivered a controversial speech where he suggested the ‘failure of multiculturalism’ just hours after one of the EDLs biggest rallies. On that occasion around 4,000 EDL supporters marched through Luton. That de...
Yet normally, far from being a force of stability, at regular intervals for the two years prior to the riots, the EDL has presented a much more routine and significant public order problem for police services the length and breadth of the country. While the recent riots have now eclipsed that concern, it should not be forgotten that the Far Right a...
Yet as the context of this violence, in keeping with the riots, are the changes in the economy over the decades, especially the collapse of many industries that once supplied jobs to both the skilled and unskilled working class. Precarious employment is often at the root of social problems, and what is common to both the emergence of the EDL and th...
It appears that the EDL had been very successful in mobilising such hooligan groups who had historically and often unsuccessfully been targets of recruitment drives of the far-right (Garland and Treadwell, 2010). Arguably, that ‘success’ has meant that it was the EDL who have posed the most significant threat to community cohesion in Britain in rec...
More recently, the EDL has factionalised and divided as leadership rifts take their toll. Some amongst its hierarchy see the future as being the move toward legitimate politics in the wake of the collapse of the BNP’s vote and the bankruptcy of its finances. Others want to remain street based and become more aggressive, violent and extreme. There i...
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Aug 7, 2013 · Given the predominance of looting, especially as rioting spread beyond London to other urban centres in England, many discussions sought to examine whether the riots were about politics or consumption, a form of protest or a violent shopping spree.
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Exploring the events of the 2011 London riots through Robert Merton’s ‘strain’ theory to provide a deeper understanding of how living in a ‘Consumer Society’ can propel people into crime and why. Download Free PDF.
Aug 4, 2021 · One Response to “The London riots ten years on: how a crackdown on protest became their main legacy”. The global pandemic has awakened those ghosts, and we now see movements like Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion as part of a confident protest culture in a fractious and increasingly fissiparous country.
The English Defence League ( EDL) is a far-right, Islamophobic organisation in England. A social movement and pressure group that employs street demonstrations as its main tactic, the EDL presents itself as a single-issue movement opposed to Islamism and Islamic extremism, although its rhetoric and actions target Islam and Muslims more widely.
Dec 2, 2015 · Particularly in the London area, where most of my research was carried out, EDL activism brought them into frequent face-to-face contact with some of the most extreme Islamist activists in Europe; entailed regular online and offline clashes with hostile anti-fascist activists; and most soon accumulated their own personal catalogue of grievances ...
