Title: Riot city : protest and rebellion in the capital /
Authors: Bloom, Clive
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Riots England London History; Demonstrations England London History; Protest movements England London History
Abstract: Since 2000, London has seen unprecedented levels of unrest. Its streets have become the battleground for a host of new demands and new ideological standpoints; its occupants, protesters and authority alike, have had to invent new tactics to cope with the pressure of these demands. Riot City deals in detail with the story behind the capital's unrest from the perspective of protesters, police and government. Using a range of sources, from security briefings to reportage, Clive Bloom provides a full historical analysis of the student protests to the August riots. In doing so, he draws parallels between these shocking events and reveals, more disturbingly, how security forces failed to act upon their early predictions of the intensified violence of 2011.
Contents: 2000 : preface to disorder in the twenty-first century -- 2010 : Occupy everything -- 2010 to 2012 : the constant threat and the distant fear -- 2010 : the Crisis and the student riots -- 2011 : the summer riots : a cold wind in August -- 1668, 1780, and 1981 : contexts and explanations.