They can't do nothin' to us today
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4739481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin Mcdonald (0000-0002-6977-0009, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17-23 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513611434137 |
| OpenAlex | W1990280157 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 4 |
Just as with the riots of 1981, the riots of summer 2012 will play a key role in the reshaping of British society. Most analyses frame these events as pathologies of the poor or as contemporary expressions of Mertonian anomie. Drawing on the work of Randall Collins, this article explores the riot as a form of collective action, considers the role of looting and arson within it, and the extent to which the actors involved find themselves part of multiple logics that mutually undermine each other. The analysis highlights the importance of the embodied, mobile, temporal and visual dimensions of the riot, and argues that the social sciences need to develop conceptual tools and methods to both engage with such embodied events and to be part of the social debate about their meaning
Anomie · Collective action · Criminology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Looting · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Sociology and Norbert Elias
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2017 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |