The Tottenham riots: the Big Society and the recurring neglect of community participation

Dillon, Denis; Fanning, Bryan

doi:10.1093/cdj/bss056

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“…Our concern in this paper is that this research gap is substantial and that it ultimately means scholars fail to grasp the full significance of riots. Some studies have engaged with the immediate planning (Dillon & Fanning, 2012) and policy responses (Newburn et al, 2018;Rich, 1993), but not only do these focus primarily on institutional actors but also they focus on immediate responses. Other studies consider the longer-term effects of riots but tend to do so as a side-note within a different story (e.g., Panton & Walters, 2018).…”

Section: Present-centrism In the Literature? Causes And Dynamics Of Riotsmentioning

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

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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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Section: Present-centrism In the Literature? Causes And Dynamics Of Riotsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

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Borén

Lindell

2021

Journal of Urban Affairs

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“…Between 2009 and 2011, the eastern boroughs of Hackney, Haringey, Islington, Lambeth, Lewisham, Newham, Southwark, and Tower Hamlets recorded the most concentrated incidences of poverty of all London boroughs, measured by higher use of temporary accommodation, housing foreclosures and evictions, families on social benefits, unemployment, and annual subsistence on a low income (MacInnes et al ). The riots in England in August 2011, that took shape in Tottenham in the northeastern borough of Haringey and quickly spread to Hackney and Walthamstow, underlined the social tensions in East London caused by poverty as well as practices of racialization (Bridges ; Dillon and Fanning ; Millington ). The development of the ELCLT within this political‐economic and social context added to what has been considered as a longstanding trajectory of different forms of social resistance in East London (Glynn ) and sought to address contemporary enclosures caused by increased income disparity, privatization, as well as exclusionary displacement aggravated by a challenging housing market.…”

Section: Pursuing Commons In East London: Politics Alliances and Thmentioning

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Pursuing Urban Commons: Politics and Alliances in Community Land Trust Activism in East London

Bunce

2015

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Community land trust (CLT) practices contribute to analyses of the commons in both conceptual and on‐the‐ground ways. As collective action organizations, CLTs emphasize common land stewardship and resist traditional land speculation and development practices through the mitigation or halting of land value inflation. This paper traces the activist efforts of the East London CLT organization, one of Britain's first urban CLTs, in securing common land in the East London borough of Tower Hamlets, and examines their navigation of political decisions and creation of alliances. Although this process has been challenging as a result of neoliberal governance and private development interests, the East London CLT's trajectory demonstrates the frustrations of activism within these contexts but also the small successes in the pursuit and establishment of urban commons.

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“…Analyses of the riots that took place in August 2011 in England have similarly focused more on push factors and less on the micro-dynamics of the events. The riots were variously described as the result of structural inequalities, austerity and the cuts (Allen et al 2013; Millington 2011), consumer culture (Bauman 2011; Casey 2013; Moxon 2011), police ‘stop and search’ policies (Dillon & Fanning 2012) and a deficit in community cohesion and participation (Dillon & Fanning 2012). The Riots Communities and Victims Panel set up by the Government, which was criticized for not considering structural issues (Bridges 2012), concluded by blaming the breakdown of families and lack of character in the young for their involvement in the riots (RCVP 2012).…”

Section: Analysing the 2011 Riotsmentioning

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“…1.2 There has been a significant amount of analysis of the riots since they occurred, which has sought to explain the causes, the motivations of participants and the police response (see for example: Allen et al 2013; Baudains et al 2013; Dillon and Fanning 2012; Moxon 2011; Solomos 2011). In recent years, there has also been an increased interest in developing micro-sociological theories of violence that move away from criminological perspectives towards a situational and micro-interactional approach, placing violent practices at the centre of the analysis (Bakonyi & Bliesemann de Guevara 2012; Collins 2008).…”

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The ‘Peaks and Troughs’ of Societal Violence: Revisiting the Actions of Turkish and Kurdish Shopkeepers during the 2011 London Riots

Doná

Taylor

2015

Sociological Research Online

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This article examines an instance of contained violence during the 2011 riots in London, when Turkish and Kurdish ‘shopkeepers’ in Dalston, East London prevented rioters from entering the area. Introducing a ‘peaks’ and ‘troughs’ approach to the sociological study of violence, the article argues that we need to look at the troughs of non-violence in order to understand the peaks of violence and vice-versa. Based on a small-scale empirical study, this article also shows that contrary to the dominant representation of social actors playing fixed roles during social unrest, we found shifting positions and blurred boundaries in the drama of the 2011 riots. The paper demonstrates that the instance of contained violence in Dalston was informed by three types of reverberations. Firstly, we identified anticipatory reverberations, as the shopkeepers were aware of concurrent events elsewhere in London and, as a result, anticipated rioting in Dalston. Secondly, we saw experiential reverberations, as they used their own experience of unrest in Turkey to inform their behaviour. Finally, the representation of the action of the shopkeepers in traditional and social media may have contributed to the containment of violence elsewhere in England, suggesting representational reverberations.

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The Tottenham riots: the Big Society and the recurring neglect of community participation

Cited by 7 publications

References 4 publications

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

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

Pursuing Urban Commons: Politics and Alliances in Community Land Trust Activism in East London

The ‘Peaks and Troughs’ of Societal Violence: Revisiting the Actions of Turkish and Kurdish Shopkeepers during the 2011 London Riots

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