The hidden morale of the 2005 French and 2011 English riots

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4822989
AutoresFerdinand Sutterlüty (Goethe University and Institute of Social Research, Germany, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen121
Número1
Páginas38-56
Fecha de publicación2014-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThesis Eleven (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0725513614528784
OpenAlexW2082532406
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas33

This essay reconstructs the normative core of the recent European riots, when young rebels reacted to the disregard for their civic claims to equal treatment. Referring to the available data and facts, the essay uses the example of the two biggest riots in contemporary French and British history to show that prevailing analyses only grasp certain aspects of these events: these riots were primarily neither 'race riots', 'issueless riots' nor 'riots of defective consumers'. Nourished in particular by experiences with the police and the school system in the urban districts from which the rioters recruited, rage was directed against the symbols and embodiments of a state that has failed to live up to its promise of equality. It is the everyday undermining of the principle of their equality as citizens and the physically experienced violation of minimum constitutional standards that best explain the motivations of those participating in the riots

Criminology · Normative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · Law