1st Edition
Reading the Riot Act Reflections on the 2011 urban disorders in England
Introduction Rupa Huq
1. Suburbia Runs Riot: The UK August 2011 Riots, Neo-Moral Panic and the End of the English Suburban Dream? Rupa Huq
2. Once as History, Twice as Farce? The Spectre of the Summer of ’81 in Discourses on the August 2011 Riots Evan Smith
3. From Cairo to Tottenham: Big Societies, Neoliberal States, Colonial Utopias Caroline Rooney
4. Critical Consumers Run Riot in Manchester Sivamohan Valluvan, Nisha Kapoor and Virinder S. Kalra
5. Regional Narratives and Post-racial Fantasies in the English Riots Gargi Bhattacharyya
6. Contexts for Distraction Tom Henri and John Hutnyk
Biography
Rupa Huq was Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Kingston University, UK, from 2004 until her election as Labour MP for Ealing Central and Acton in May 2015. Her previous books include Beyond Subculture: youth, pop and identity in a postcolonial world (Routledge, 2006) and Making Sense of Popular Culture (Bloomsbury, 2013).
