Book contents
- Breaching the Civil Order
- Breaching the Civil Order
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Wedging Open Established Civil Spheres
- 2 Radical Protest on a University Campus
- 3 Antiracism Movements and the US Civil Sphere
- 4 The Civil Sphere and Its Variants in Light of the Arab Revolutions and Jihadism in Europe
- 5 Restaging a Vital Center within Radicalized Civil Societies
- 6 Anti-immigrant Movements and the Self-Poisoning of the Civil Sphere
- 7 The Civil Sphere and Revolutionary Violence
- 8 “We All Came Together That Day”
- 9 Disobedience in Civil Regeneration
- Commentary
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
8 - “We All Came Together That Day”
The 2011 English Riots as an Enactment of Solidarity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2019
- Breaching the Civil Order
- Breaching the Civil Order
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Wedging Open Established Civil Spheres
- 2 Radical Protest on a University Campus
- 3 Antiracism Movements and the US Civil Sphere
- 4 The Civil Sphere and Its Variants in Light of the Arab Revolutions and Jihadism in Europe
- 5 Restaging a Vital Center within Radicalized Civil Societies
- 6 Anti-immigrant Movements and the Self-Poisoning of the Civil Sphere
- 7 The Civil Sphere and Revolutionary Violence
- 8 “We All Came Together That Day”
- 9 Disobedience in Civil Regeneration
- Commentary
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
Summary
On August 4, 2011, Mark Duggan, a local resident of Tottenham in north London, was shot dead by the Metropolitan Police Service. In the immediate aftermath of the killing, community members petitioned for an explanation but were met with silence. The authorities’ refusal to provide answers for their actions led to an uprising of the sort that England had not witnessed since the Broadwater Farm Riots in 1985. Spreading like wildfire, the riots reached dozens of areas throughout London and later broke out in England’s major cities such as Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool. Over the course of five days, 2,500 shops were looted and £300 million worth of property damage was reported (Roberts 2011). As the media disseminated images of burning buildings and armed youths in hoodies, the nation grappled with narratives about one of the most significant uprisings in recent memory, narratives that presented the riots as acts of unfettered deviance.
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- Breaching the Civil OrderRadicalism and the Civil Sphere, pp. 210 - 234Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019