Liverpool Responds to the Crisis

Frost, Diane; North, Peter

doi:10.5949/liverpool/9781846318634.003.0003

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“…Inspired by the actions of the South Africans they campaigned for, there were many on the Non-Stop Picket who were sympathetic to the prospect of insurrectionary change in Britain. Indeed, given the group’s stance of attempting to generate anti-apartheid solidarity by linking the experience of systemic racism in Britain with that of apartheid in South Africa, many picketers had also been involved in anti-racist campaigns in defence of those imprisoned as a result of the inner city ‘uprisings’ in Britain a few years previously (Frost and Phillips, 2011; Jefferson, 2012; Till, 2013).…”

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‘Burn it down!’: Materialising intersectional solidarities in the architecture of the South African Embassy during the London Poll Tax Riot, March 1990

Brown

2019

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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This paper offers a new way of conceptualising how intersectional solidarities are actualised. It recounts and theorises an outbreak of radical internationalism, when working class struggles in Britain and South Africa were unexpectedly linked. It examines how intersectional solidarity was materialised through a process of coming together against the architectural fabric of the South African Embassy and considers the interwoven temporalities that enabled this action to occur. On 31 March 1990, nearly a quarter of a million people demonstrated in London against the Poll Tax that was due to take effect in England and Wales the following day. On the day, the Metropolitan Police lost control of an already enraged crowd and provoked a large scale riot that engulfed the West End of London for several hours. In the midst of the riot, during a short retreat by the police, protesters took the opportunity to attack the South African Embassy in Trafalgar Square – many windows were broken and an attempt was made to set the building alight. Drawing on interviews with former anti-apartheid protesters who were present on that day (and who had concluded a four-year long Non-Stop Picket of the embassy a month earlier), this paper explores and analyses their memories of that unexpected moment when their previously symbolic call to ‘burn it down’ was (almost) materialised. In doing so, it contributes new ways of conceptualising the spatiality and temporality of intersectional solidarity.

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Section: ‘Close Down the Nest Of Spies’mentioning

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‘Burn it down!’: Materialising intersectional solidarities in the architecture of the South African Embassy during the London Poll Tax Riot, March 1990

Brown

2019

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…Strong neighbourhood identities with Liverpool 8 have subsequently been reinforced through a series of divisive and discriminatory events not unique to Liverpool. This included police harassment and racism throughout the 1970s and 1980s, 1980s urban unrest rooted in socioeconomic inequalities, racial discrimination, and coercive policing, as well as broader issues around unemployment, poverty and exclusion (Ben-Tovim, 1986; Law and Henfrey, 1981; Roberts et al, 1992; Frost et al, 2011; Frost et al, 2013). Self-organisation and community defence that emerged in response to such developments have helped strengthen community bonds and solidarity.…”

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Residents’ perspectives on defining neighbourhood: mental mapping as a tool for participatory neighbourhood research

Catney

Frost

Vaughn

2018

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Definitions of neighbourhood in the Social Sciences are complex, varying in their characteristics (for example, perceived boundaries and content) and between residents of that neighbourhood (for example, by class and ethnicity). This study employs an under-utilised methodology offering strong potential for overcoming some of the difficulties associated with neighbourhood definitions. A mental mapping exercise involving local residents is showcased for an ethnically diverse working-class neighbourhood in south Liverpool. The results demonstrate distinctions between residents in the geographical demarcation of the area and the features included, with important implications for how neighbourhood is best measured and understood. We suggest that one size does not fit all in definitions of neighbourhood, and that mental mapping should form a more common part of a neighbourhood researcher’s toolkit.

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“…Climate policy in Liverpool emerged in the early 2000s as a subset of sustainability, broadly conceived. This was a period of reflection about the city's future after the battles of the 'Militant' years (1983'Militant' years ( -1987 in which Liverpool's local socialist council had (unsuccessfully) challenged central government for resources to alleviate the city's deepseated poverty (Frost and North, 2013). At this time, some environmentally minded local actors argued that Liverpool should accept that it was a post-industrial, shrinking city but that there were positive elements to this: Victorian parks, Georgian architecture, uncongested roads, low house prices, and a clean River Mersey.…”

Section: The (Contested) Evolution Of Low Carbon Policy In Liverpoolmentioning

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The neoliberalisation of climate? Progressing climate policy under austerity urbanism

2017

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While the urban is identified as a productive site for addressing climate change, the 'post-political' critique dismisses climate policy as a vacuous discourse that obscures power relations and exclusion, defends the established neoliberal order, and silences challenges. This paper argues that rather than consensus, there is a conflict between urban climate policy and the need to reignite economic growth in the context of austerity urbanism, but also that we should not assume that challenges to neoliberal understandings of the 'sensible' will always be disregarded. Rather, urban climate policy can be progressed through partnership processes utilising 'coproduction' techniques which entail significant agonistic, if not antagonistic, contestation. The argument is illustrated with a case study of climate policy making in the context of austerity urbanism in Liverpool, UK. While 'low carbon' is conceptualised by elite actors in Liverpool in neoliberal terms as a source of new low carbon jobs and businesses, with an emphasis on energy security and fuel poverty, this view is not unchallenged. The paper recounts how an ad hoc group of actors in the city came together to form a partnership advocating for more strategic decarbonisation, which should be progressed through a bid for the city to be European Green Capital. The disputes that emerged around this agenda suggest that in the context of austerity urbanism the need for cities to act to mitigate against dangerous climate change is not as uncontested as conceptions of the post-political suggest.

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Liverpool Responds to the Crisis

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‘Burn it down!’: Materialising intersectional solidarities in the architecture of the South African Embassy during the London Poll Tax Riot, March 1990

‘Burn it down!’: Materialising intersectional solidarities in the architecture of the South African Embassy during the London Poll Tax Riot, March 1990

Residents’ perspectives on defining neighbourhood: mental mapping as a tool for participatory neighbourhood research

The neoliberalisation of climate? Progressing climate policy under austerity urbanism

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