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Riots and Political Protest
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The years 2008 to 2013 saw a new generation of political protestors take to the streets. Riots disrupted many Western cities and new protest movements emerged, keen to address a bleak context of economic collapse and austerity politics.

In this groundbreaking new study, Winlow, Hall, Briggs and Treadwell push past the unworldly optimism of the liberal left to offer an illuminating account of the enclosure and vacuity of contemporary politics. Focusing on the English riots of 2011, the ongoing crisis in Greece, the Indignados, 15M and Podemos in Spain, the Occupy movement in New York and London and the English Defence League in northern England, this book uses original empirical data to inform a strident theoretical critique of our post-political present. It asks: what are these protest groups fighting for, and what are the chances of success?

Written by leading criminological theorists and researchers, this book makes a major contribution to contemporary debates on social order, politics and cultural capitalism. It illuminates the epochal problems we face today. Riots and Political Protest is essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of political sociology, criminological theory, political theory, sociological theory and the sociology of deviance.

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Riots and Political Protest

The years 2008 to 2013 saw a new generation of political protestors take to the streets. Riots disrupted many Western cities, and new protest movements emerged, keen to address a bleak context of economic collapse and austerity politics.

In this groundbreaking new study, Winlow, Hall, Briggs and Treadwell push past the unworldly optimism of the liberal Left to offer an illuminating account of the enclosure and vacuity of contemporary politics. Focusing on the English riots of 2011, the ongoing crisis in Greece, the Indignados, 15M and Podemos in Spain, the Occupy movement in New York and London and the English Defence League in northern England, this book uses original empirical data to inform a strident theoretical critique of our post-political present. It asks: What are these protest groups fighting for, and what are the chances of success?

Written by leading criminological theorists and researchers, this book makes a major contribution to contemporary debates on social order, politics and cultural capitalism. It illuminates the epochal problems we face today. Riots and Political Protest is essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of political sociology, criminological theory, political theory, sociological theory and the sociology of deviance.

Simon Winlow is Professor of Criminology at Teesside University and Co-Director of the Teesside Centre for Realist Criminology. He is the author of Badfellas (Berg, 2001) and co-author of Bouncers (Oxford University Press, 2003), Violent Night (Berg, 2006), Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture (Willan, 2008), Rethinking Social Exclusion (Sage, 2013) and Revitalizing Criminological Theory (Routledge, 2015). He is also the co-editor of New Directions in Crime and Deviancy (Routledge, 2012) and New Directions in Criminological Theory (Routledge, 2012).

Steve Hall is Professor of Criminology at Teesside University and Co-Director of the Teesside Centre for Realist Criminology. He is author of Theorizing Crime and Deviance (Sage, 2012), and co-author of Revitalizing Criminological Theory (Routledge, 2015), Rethinking Social Exclusion (Sage, 2013), Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture (Routledge, 2008) and Violent Night (Berg, 2006). He is also the coeditor of New Directions in Criminology (Routledge, 2012).

James Treadwell is a lecturer in criminology at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of the best-selling textbooks Criminology (2006) and Criminology: The essentials (2012). He is perhaps best known as an ethnographer, and he has published articles in a number of leading criminology and criminal justice journals.

Daniel Briggs is Professor of Criminology at the Universidad Europea in Madrid. He is the author of Deviance and Risk on Holiday (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013) and Crack Cocaine Users (Routledge, 2012) and co-author of Culture and Immigration in Context (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014) and Assessing the Impact and Use of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (Policy Press, 2007). He is also the editor of The English Riots of 2011 (Waterside Press, 2012).

Are riots a politics of resistance, or just free shopping trips? Has consumerism beaten politics? This engaging, principled and important study is both an exploration of the disturbances in Europe since the financial crash of 2008 and an investigation of the chances and shape of politics in a world where neo-liberalism seems to have won. Riots and Political Protest is a powerful call to think and act anew.

Keith Tester, Professor of Sociology, University of Hull, UK

From New York, to Spain to the North of England, this book gives space to some of the forgotten voices of the last decade. These voices, cast aside by the insistent grasp of neo-liberal economics, are without a politics or a political space in which liberal democracies permit them to be heard. This is a provocative, impassioned, challenging, data-driven, read. If you didnt have a view about the nature of politics and economics before reading this book, you certainly will have after finishing it.

Professor Sandra Walklate, Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Liverpool, UK

In the best traditions of critical scholarship, Winlow, Hall, Briggs and Treadwell take stock of our post-political present, bringing powerful new insights, and a fresh energy to understanding the nature of contemporary opposition, protest, and antagonism. Written with intellectual precision, wide-ranging theoretical engage ment and their characteristic wit, Riots and Political Protest will be a landmark text for academics, students, activists, commentators and politicians who have the courage, commitment, and vision to imagine alternative political landscapes.

Elaine Campbell, Professor of Criminology, Newcastle University, UK

In their survey and analysis of recent social movements, riots and protests the authors offer a particular and radical vision of our contemporary world and its potential futures. Anyone with an interest in this field, will undoubtedly want to engage with this book.

Tim Newburn, Professor of Criminology and Social Policy, London School of Economics, UK

Riots and Political Protest

Notes from the post-political present

Simon Winlow , Steve Hall , James Treadwell and Daniel Briggs

First published 2015 by Routledge 2 Park Square Milton Park Abingdon Oxon - photo 2

First published 2015
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2015 Simon Winlow, Steve Hall, Daniel Briggs and James Treadwell

The right of Simon Winlow, Steve Hall, Daniel Briggs and James Treadwell to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Winlow, Simon.
Riots and political protest: notes from the post-political present/ Simon Winlow, Steve Hall, Daniel Briggs and James Treadwell.
pages cm
1. Protest movements. 2. Political participation. 3. Political violence.
4. Riots. I. Title.
HN18.3.W56 2015
303.48'4 dc23
2014048784

ISBN13: 978-0-415-73081-5 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-415-73082-2 (pbk)
ISBN13: 978-1-315-84947-8 (ebk)

Typeset in Bembo and Stone Sans
by Florence Production Ltd, Stoodleigh, Devon, UK

Contents

Introduction

Name your beliefs; identify your enemy

It is now clear that the global financial meltdown of 2008 was an event of truly historical proportions. Initially at least, when the crisis first hit, it seemed to signal the exhaustion of a particular epoch and open up the possibility that something new might take its place. A strutting, self-satisfied neo-liberalism, beholden to the abstract financial markets that had become central to its economic functioning, appeared to have dropped off the edge of a steep cliff, and only the tax revenues of ordinary workers in the real economy could save it. Before the crash, minimally regulated free-market capitalism had defeated all alternative models of economic organisation to become the pure common sense that all mainstream politicians took for granted. In the months that followed the crash, as the scale of the endemic mismanagement and greed that had carried the global economy to the brink of catastrophe became clear, previously bullish free-market ideologues appeared chastened and contrite. The neo-liberal model itself was subject to stinging rebuke. Once again, it became possible to speak publicly of political and economic alternatives to neo-liberalism without being immediately dismissed as an unworldly utopian or an advocate of totalitarianism.

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