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Christianity, Roman History, Legitimacy and Authority, History of Christianity, Urban History, and 16 moreEarly Christianity, Mediterranean Studies, Eastern Christianity, Byzantine History, Patronage (History), Urban Violence, Mobs, Riots, and Revolutionary Crowds, Roman History, Late Antiquity; History of Christianity, Ecumenical Patriarchate, Riots, Roman Emperors, Political Image, Eastern Mediterranean Port Cities, Late Antique Bishops, Late Antique Christianity, and Riot Cultureedit
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Download On August 9th 2011, hundreds of citizens gathered in the streets of Salford, predominately in the Precinct area. Violence escalated as commercial and domestic properties were set on fire, and rioters engaged in widespread looting.... more
On August 9th 2011, hundreds of citizens gathered in the streets of Salford, predominately in the Precinct area. Violence escalated as commercial and domestic properties were set on fire, and rioters engaged in widespread looting. Simultaneously, riots were taking place across the country in cities such as London, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester and Liverpool and were covered extensively by national and local media. This paper focuses on local media coverage of the Salford riots in an attempt to shed light on the main interpretations which the local media offered to their readers. A (quantitative and qualitative) content analysis was conducted on news reported in four major local news websites during the period 9th August– 6th Sept 2011 (N=100) in order to identify the most common themes and frames presented by the media in reporting the Salford riots. Results show the overwhelming presence of a crime frame to the events: news outlets concentrated on policing and juridical aspects of the events with little room for political and larger social debates. The paper discusses differences between outlets and time frame, as well as the potential implications of imposing this type of framing on collective action.
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"Forty years after the publication of Eric Hobsbawn and George Rudé’s Captain Swing, this collection of essays takes another look at the uprising of agricultural labourers in 1830. The ten essays by leading experts on the Swing riots take... more
"Forty years after the publication of Eric Hobsbawn and George Rudé’s Captain Swing, this collection of essays takes another look at the uprising of agricultural labourers in 1830. The ten essays by leading experts on the Swing riots take into account subsequent research and provide new insights and perspectives on the
disturbances that shook the southern counties."
disturbances that shook the southern counties."
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Economic History, Violence, British History, Nineteenth Century Studies, Historiography, and 70 moreRural History, History and Memory, English History, Oral history, Agrarian Change, Agrarian Unrest/Populism, History of Political Violence, Rural Geography, Nineteenth Century British History and Culture, Cultural Memory, English Poor Law, Neo Luddism, Social History, Rural Poverty, Social Memory, Agrarian History, 19th Century (History), Agricultural History, Social and Cultural History, History of Historiography, English Local History, Rural Settlement, History of Hampshire and Winchester, 19th Century Britain, Eric Hobsbawm, English Social History, Sussex, Oral History and Memory, Local and regional history, Violent Protest, Rural livelihoods and economy, Mobs, Riots, and Revolutionary Crowds, Social protests, Sussex History, Mobs, Riots, and Crowds, Agrarian Social Movements, Economic and Social History, Luddism, Arson, Nineteenth Century Social Reform, Rural Livelihoods, Southern England, Riots, Agricultural labour, Popular Protest, Social Protest, Agricultural land use change, Wiltshire, Social Unrest and Popular Protest, Wiltshire Social History, Swing Riots, Eighteenth and nineteenth century Poverty in Rural Wiltshire, Land enclosures of the 18th and early 19th century UK, Agrarian conflicts, Agrarian reform, Surrey, Threats, Popular Protest Songs, Agricultural Machinery, Agricultural Mechanisation, Protest in the long 18th century/ Social unrest in Hampshire and Wiltshire, Agricultural Labourers Economic Status, 19th Century Popular Song, History of Popular Protest, Social Unrest, Agrarian Conflict, Social conflict and unrest, Captain Swing, History of Southern England, and Berkshireedit
The objective of this paper is to uncover the determinants of riot victimization in India. The analysis is based on a unique survey collected by the authors in March-May 2010 in Maharashtra. We adopt a multilevel framework that allows... more
The objective of this paper is to uncover the determinants of riot victimization in India. The analysis is based on a unique survey collected by the authors in March-May 2010 in Maharashtra. We adopt a multilevel framework that allows neighbourhood and district effects to randomly influence household victimization. The main results are that households that (i) are economically vulnerable, (ii) live in the vicinity of a crime-prone area, and (iii) are not able to rely on community support are considerably more prone to suffer from riots than other households. All else equal, income per capita increases victimization, presumably through an opportunity cost mechanism. We find further that relatively affluent neighbourhoods and those characterized by large caste fragmentation are more riot-prone than disfranchised and homogeneous ones. Victimization is more common in neighbourhoods with weaker social interactions, but some evidence suggests that weak social interactions may also be a consequence of rioting.
The gloomy shadows of the December revolt of 2008 — triggered by the police murder of Alexis Grigoropoulos — still loom large over the Greek capital.
"“The hooligan and the girl with the veil. Rebellions and gender issues in France” The history of urban rebellions of the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century in France has to be read depending on a... more
"“The hooligan and the girl with the veil. Rebellions and gender issues in France”
The history of urban rebellions of the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century in France has to be read depending on a long history of juvenile rebellions, but also depending on the recent past and in particular on the traces of the Algerian War, still present in the social imagination. Therefore the particularity of these rebellions is that they have a place at the same time in a social and urban situation downgraded because of the job crisis, in some more and more relegated banlieues and in a postcolonial configuration. Without a program, without a structured organisation and without a leader, the urban rebellions of the second half of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century are very different from the political acts of violence and from the social conflicts of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, but they equally express a revolt against social injustice and an aspiration towards the values of the Republic.
Keywords: urban rebellions; gender identities; Islamic veil; March for equality; secularism
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The history of urban rebellions of the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century in France has to be read depending on a long history of juvenile rebellions, but also depending on the recent past and in particular on the traces of the Algerian War, still present in the social imagination. Therefore the particularity of these rebellions is that they have a place at the same time in a social and urban situation downgraded because of the job crisis, in some more and more relegated banlieues and in a postcolonial configuration. Without a program, without a structured organisation and without a leader, the urban rebellions of the second half of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century are very different from the political acts of violence and from the social conflicts of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, but they equally express a revolt against social injustice and an aspiration towards the values of the Republic.
Keywords: urban rebellions; gender identities; Islamic veil; March for equality; secularism
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Japan faces Chinese military operations against the Senkaku Islands, which Beijing claims under the name Diaoyu. However, China has been mainly using paramilitary and coastguard units, while civilians (fishermen and activists) have also... more
Japan faces Chinese military operations against the Senkaku Islands, which Beijing claims under the name Diaoyu. However, China has been mainly using paramilitary and coastguard units, while civilians (fishermen and activists) have also been key actors in her strategy. As a result, Japans' Self-Defense Forces need to develop a wide range of capabilities, so that they can react to different contingencies, from an invasion by a traditional military force to one by unarmed activists, including the different combinations in between. Therefore, by analogy with the USMC's 'Three-Block Doctrine', we may talk about the 'Three-Island Doctrine', and just like the USMC is building a police capability, so should Japan's SDF.