Contention: The Multi-Disciplinary Journal of Social Protest: Vol. 2.2: Issue: Politics, Consumption or Nihilism: Disorder After the Global Crash - Softcover

Journal, Contention

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692425039 ISBN 13: 9780692425039

Publisher: Punctum Books, 2015

Synopsis

Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest is a scientific journal which aims to offer a novel contribution to the study of social protest. The journal intends to advance knowledge about a comprehensive range of collective actions, social movements and other forms of political and social contention. Its main purposes are to offer a multidisciplinary forum to scholars from different fields and to bridge the gap between them, within and across the social sciences and humanities. The papers collected together for this special issue, "Politics, Consumption or Nihilism: Protest and Disorder After the Global Crash," probe the divergent expressions and understandings of social protest and disorder in this age of global austerity, retrenchment and revolt. The impetus for this special issues was the international conference held at Sheffield Hallam University on the 13th and 14th of September 2012, 13 months after the widespread outbreak of rioting across London and a number of other English provincial cities. The papers here collected put into question dominant discourses around the meanings of disorder and protest, primarily in relation to the English Riots, but also as regards our understanding of the formation of social discontent and social movements elsewhere. They indicate alternative readings and meanings for the riots revolving around the notions of social conflict and inequality. ARTICLES // Bob Jeffery, Joseph Ibrahim & David Waddington: Politics, Consumption or Nihilism: Protest and Disorder After the Global Crash -- Tony Jefferson: The 2011 English Riots: A Contextualised, Dynamic, Grounded Exploration -- Christian Garland: Simulating Events as They Happen: Spectacle, Ideology, and Readymade boogeymen. The 2011 August Riots and the Media -- Bob Jeffery & Wawas Tufail: ‘The Riots Were Where the Police Were’: Deconstructing the Pendelton Riot -- Matthew Moran & David Waddington: Recent Riots in the UK and France: Causes and Commonalities -- Daniel Briggs: Violence, Global Unrest and Advanced Capitalism (and Why Wile E. Coyote Never Catches RoadRunner)

About this edition

• Publisher: Punctum Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0692425039
• ISBN 13: 9780692425039
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108
• Editor: Travaglino Giovanni, Abrams Benjamin, Jeffery Bob, Ibrahim Joseph, Waddington David