Marginalization and Riots: A Rationalistic Explanation of Urban Unrest

Holdo, Markus; Bengtsson, Bo

doi:10.1080/14036096.2019.1578996

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“…Dropping to a lower level does not mean that the risk of social unrest will go away, but the possibility of escalation to a higher level is reduced. However, there is still the possibility that new events or decisions could re-enact the escalation process (Holdo & Bengtsson, 2020).…”

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Social Unrest of Betawi‘s Traditional Arts and Culture Performers during COVID-19 Pandemic

Wardhana¹,

Nurhasana²

2020

The Winners

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The Covid-19 pandemic has led many people to reduce gathering outside their homes. The imposition of social restrictions and territorial quarantine has caused social unrest in many sectors of society. This social unrest occurs because economic activities have stopped or decreased suddenly and income has decreased drastically. Social unrest is an escalation process that must be handled immediately so that it does not escalate to a higher level. The level of social unrest begins with disappointment with a policy experienced by a community. This social unrest is experienced by Betawi’s traditional arts and culture performers in Jakarta due to a sudden decrease in the number of artistic and cultural activities that have an impact on their economic activities. Their social unrest data is then collected by Jakarta Capital City Government, through the Jakarta Culture Office via an intensive interview with Betawi’s traditional arts and culture figures. The results of the interviews were identified and then used as the basis for formulating policies that could reduce social unrest in the Betawi arts and cultural performers. Preventing social unrest from moving to a greater level means preventing greater handling costs that have to be carried out at a larger level.

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Social Unrest of Betawi‘s Traditional Arts and Culture Performers during COVID-19 Pandemic

Wardhana¹,

Nurhasana²

2020

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“…The riots were a reaction to the killing and the police’s handling of the situation. First the police claimed that the man had been taken to the hospital, which the photo evidence proved untrue (see Holdo and Bengtsson, 2019). When local residents protested outside the police department the day after, the police did not respond.…”

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“…Because riots typically occur in areas whose material deprivation has been neglected and where residents’ concerns have been ignored (Kawalerowicz and Biggs, 2015), they frequently generate debates and discussions that are centrally concerned with discursive marginalization. Indeed, riots are often seen in the literature as a form of protest from citizens who lack opportunities and resources to make themselves heard in ordinary political discourse (Holdo and Bengtsson, 2019; Mayer et al, 2016). In this way, riots, even if they do not themselves count as deliberative acts, may play crucial generative roles in deliberation and meta-deliberation (cf.…”

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Why Inequalities Persist in Public Deliberation: Five Mechanisms of Marginalization

Holdo

Sagrelius

2019

Political Studies

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Previous research has suggested that reflective “meta-deliberation,” or discussions about how discussions proceed, can help to address patterns of marginalization. This article suggests, however, that moving to a meta level is not in itself a solution, since it may easily bring along such patterns. Inequalities persist through specific mechanisms that may be present in both ordinary deliberation and meta-deliberation. We explore such mechanisms empirically, by focusing on experiences of people that were excluded from discussions to which they were uniquely qualified to contribute. Our case is the 2013 Stockholm riots, and our interviewees are people who live, work, and engage in local civil society groups in the affected neighborhoods. These interviews helped us identify five mechanisms that affect a society’s capacity for reflective uptake in both ordinary deliberation and meta-deliberation: (1) imposition of preexisting narratives, (2) inclusion of locally dominant actors, (3) discursive distancing, (4), reliance on social markers, and (5) paternalistic conflict avoidance.

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“…These factors tend to orbit class (Scambler & Scambler, 2011), ethnic inequalities (Amin, 2003), and problematic urban governance (Dikeç, 2007(Dikeç, , 2017. A substantial literature has also grappled with the dynamics of riots themselves and how to model or predict their occurrences (e.g., Holdo & Bengtsson, 2020;Loch, 2009;Newburn, 2016;Till, 2013), which also highlight a range of other dynamics beyond the immediate event-space of the riot. This wider literature identifies important dynamics but ultimately prioritizes the immediate temporal field before, during, or after riots, thus often missing the persistent significance of riots for urban communities.…”

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After riots: Toward a research agenda on the long-term effects of urban unrest

Ince

Borén

Lindell

2021

Journal of Urban Affairs

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Urban societies are experiencing intensified social frictions which have manifested in a growing occurrence of riots. Urban riots are often treated as ephemeral outbursts which create only short-term or immediate responses by the state or residents. However, this paper aims to move beyond such present-centrism by proposing a research agenda for studying their contextually longer-term legacies. Particular consideration is given to three thematic areas: (a) policy responses, (b) temporalities and urban memory, and (c) feelings and subjectivities. Drawing upon empirical illustrations concerning riots in London (2011) and Stockholm (2013), the paper uncovers variations within and across the two cities, such as differing state and private sector interventions; reshaping of civil society; and how residents variously resist, adapt to, and promote change. The paper thus reflects upon how riots' afterlives in different urban contexts are constructed, mobilized and contested. Such variations point to the importance of the situated study of urban riots' diverse legacies.

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Marginalization and Riots: A Rationalistic Explanation of Urban Unrest

Cited by 11 publications

References 30 publications

Social Unrest of Betawi‘s Traditional Arts and Culture Performers during COVID-19 Pandemic

Social Unrest of Betawi‘s Traditional Arts and Culture Performers during COVID-19 Pandemic

Why Inequalities Persist in Public Deliberation: Five Mechanisms of Marginalization

After riots: Toward a research agenda on the long-term effects of urban unrest

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