A Predictably Obedient Riot
Postpolitics, Consumer Culture, and the English Riots of 2011
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6141550 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon Winlow (0000-0002-0746-9034), Steve Hall (0000-0003-1128-2384, Teesside University) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 465-488 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Politics an International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1743-2197 • E-ISSN: 1751-7435 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/17432197-1722163 |
| OpenAlex | W2031289869 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 19 |
In this article we attempt to develop an analysis of the English urban riots of 2011. Rather than build on the assumption of organic resistance and protopolitics, we argue that the disturbances were a brief eruption of social unrest that lacked the clear, unifying political symbolism necessary to turn objectless dissatisfaction into articulate political demands. Rather, the consumer-oriented subjects who inhabit the socioeconomic margins of late capitalism were unable to make this political move and ultimately found themselves with nowhere to take their dissatisfaction but to the shops. This speaks loudly of the current condition of subjectivity in a postpolitical era dominated by neoliberalism and liberal postmodernism
Aesthetics · Capitalism · Consumerism · Epistemology · Media studies · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Political subjectivity · Politics · Postmodernism · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Subjectivity · Unrest · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,85 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2024 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |