Fuels, sparks and fires
On taking to the streets
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4480823 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zygmunt Bauman (University of Leeds, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 11-16 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513612444560 |
| OpenAlex | W2143211131 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
Britain's August riots were an explosion bound sooner or later to happen. Just like a minefield: one knows that some of the explosives will, true to their nature, sooner or later explode, but one doesn't know where and when. In the case of a social minefield, however, an explosion is likely to spread instantaneously, thanks to contemporary technology transmitting information in the 'real time' and prompting the 'copy-cat' effect. This particular social minefield was created by the combination of consumerism with rising inequality. This was not a rebellion or an uprising of famished and impoverished people or an oppressed ethnic or religious minority but a mutiny of defective and disqualified consumers, people offended and humiliated by the display of riches to which they had been denied access
Consumerism · Criminology · Ethnic group · Media studies · Mutiny · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · History · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US
Suburbia Runs Riot
Toward a Transformative Global Social Policy?
Supervising Rioters
The Looks of Austerity
Hoodie Horror”
The Emergence of a Lumpen-Consumerate
Gewalt in Ordnungskonflikten als Problem der erklärenden Soziologie
Shopping for Free? Looting, Consumerism and the 2011 Riots
The hidden morale of the 2005 French and 2011 English riots
Consumer culture, precarious incomes and mass indebtedness
Big city blues
The Socioeconomic Function of Evil
Practicing Urban Transformation
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2022 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |