Riot, Unrest and Protest on the Global Stage

In this collection, leading international scholars examine riots and protest in a range of countries and contexts, exploring the major social transformations of rioting and the changing dynamics, interpretation and potency of unrest in a globalised era.

Table of Contents:
1. Exploring the Global Stage: Globalisation, Riots, Unrest and Protest; Francis Pakes and David Pritchard 2. Policing Political Protest: Lessons of Best Practice from a Major English City; David Waddington 3. Mobs versus Markets: Bristol's Tesco Riot; Matthew Clement 4. Language of the Unheard: Riots in Popular Culture; Diana Bretherick 5. 'Innocence charged with guilt': The Criminalisation of Protest from Peterloo to 'Millbank'; Nadine El-Enany 6. The English Riots of 2011: Misreading the Signs on the Road to the Society of Enemies; Steve Hall and Simon Winlow 7. Inequality Constitutes a Particular Place; Danny Dorling with Carl Lee 8. Riots in France: Political, Proto-political or Anti-political Turmoils?; Fabien Jobard 9. The Ritual of Insurrection and the 'thrill seeking youth': An Instant Ethnography of Inner City Riots in Germany; Laura Naegler 10. Greece: Social Unrest against Neoliberalism and Austerity; Panagiotis Sotiris 11. Unrest and Inequalities: Comparing Welfare States; David Pritchard 12. The Criminalization of Zuccotti Park and its Lessons for the UK Riots; David C. Brotherton 13. A Political Economy of the Food Riot; Raj Patel and Philip McMichael. 14. Enter the Land Grab Riot?; Francis Pakes 15. Policing the Arab Spring: Discordant Discourses of Protest and Intervention; Roxane Farmanfarmaian 16. From #Occupy to #IdleNoMore: Rethinking Space, Settler Consciousness and Erasures within the 99%; Konstantin Kilibarda

About the Author :
Diana Bretherick, University of Portsmouth, UK David Brotherton, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA Matthew Clement, University of Winchester, UK Danny Dorling, University of Oxford, UK Nadine El-Enany, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Roxane Farmanfarmaian, University of Cambridge, UK Steve Hall, Teeside University, UK Fabien Jobard, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France Konstantin Kilibarda, York University, UK Carl Lee, The Sheffield College, UK Philip McMichael, Cornell University, USA Laura Naegler, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA Raj Patel, UC Berkeley, USA Panagiotis Sotiris, University of Athens, Greece David Waddington, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Simon Winlow, Teeside University, UK