In the first episode of the LSE British Politicast, we take a closer look at the Riots of 2011. This podcast looks back on the riots, presenting sociological and criminological perspectives on why they happened and what, if anything, can be… Read More ›
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Sociological Imagination and UK Riots
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Reading the Riots
In this podcast, recorded for the LSE Impact project, I spoke to Tim Newburn from LSE about the Reading the Riots project. This was a rather astonishing collaboration he undertook with the Guardian newspaper, carrying out a large scale research project into the… Read More ›
Sociological Imagination and #UKRiots
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How much do you have to lose? Les Back on the riots
In this interview recorded at the BSA conference in April 2012, Les Back reflects upon the significance of last summer’s riots in the UK and what, if anything, has been learnt from them.
Ill Manors: Politics, youth, engagement…. and pop music?
MYPLACE Project Manager, Martin Price, University of Warwick, on UK artist Plan B’s new single and how it relates to the work of the project. This was originally posted on the MYPLACE blog. Follow MYPLACE on Twitter here. For more information on the MYPLACE project, visit the… Read More ›
When riots have colour
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe… Read More ›
Violence, Inequality and UK Riots
In this podcast Mark Carrigan interviews Larry Ray, a professor at Kent University who has done pioneering work on the sociology of violence, about the summer’s riots in the UK, the media coverage and the subsequent political fall out. Larry… Read More ›
UK Riots: Sociological Perspectives and Civic Responses
Saturday 15th October, 2011, Birmingham Midland Institute £10 waged, £5 unwaged The recent civil disturbances across a number of English cities have provoked much commentary and debate. However, there has been little sustained analysis of the events, their causes and… Read More ›
Behind the UK Riots
Sociologists living and working in the areas affected by rioting in August 2011 examine the causes and consequences of the unrest in this series of Guardian articles. In case you missed them first time round, here’s some of SI’s coverage… Read More ›
UK Riots: Sociological Perspectives and Civic Responses
Saturday 15th October, 2011, Birmingham Midland Institute £10 waged, £5 unwaged The recent civil disturbances across a number of English cities have provoked much commentary and debate. However, there has been little sustained analysis of the events, their causes and… Read More ›
Providing meaning: give a little bit of the Sociological Imagination….
I was once asked by Mark Carrigan, editor of The Sociological Imagination, what I have learnt from studying Sociology, this was my brief response: “In a nutshell, Sociology has given me specific tools that have become invaluable to me personally… Read More ›
UK Riots 2011 – A ‘social revolution’ yet to take place?
In the chapter titled “Third World,” the historian Eric Hobsbawm writes in his autobiography Interesting Times that, “Columbia was, and continues to be, proof that gradual reform in the framework of liberal democracy is not the only, or even the… Read More ›
‘Community self-defence’ in response to London riots
In Enfield, North London, hundreds of residents took to the streets, with disturbing reports from a journalist in the area: In Southall, West London, members of the Sikh community stand guard outside their temple: In Dalston, East London, Turkish shop… Read More ›
#UKRiots and Sociological Imagination
So with London in flames for the third night in a row and, for the first time, disturbances spreading outside of the capital, the British population are asking the natural question – what the fuck is going on? The most… Read More ›