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Organised by the University’s Centre for Urban Research (CURB), the conference will examine the unrest within the broader contexts of economic decline, social inequality and criminal cultures that helped shape these events.
Taking place on September 22 and 23 at the university’s Wentworth College, issues under discussion will include the media response to the riots, the complex role of the state, the violence of street gangs, interviews with rioters to consider motivations, how social media systems were used during the riots, problematic policing practices and the harms of non-lethal riot control technologies.
Dr Rowland Atkinson, from the University’s Department of Sociology, said: “The meeting has been organised as a rapid response to the disturbances and is fuelled by a need to challenge and deepen the often superficial commentaries offered by various political and media outlets at the time.
“The focus of much media and political analysis has so far been on personal choice and overt criminality; the symposium will instead help to develop perspectives that help us to examine the social, economic and political preconditions that triggered the riots.”
The keynote speaker at the conference - Urban unrest, social resentment and justice - will be Professor Tony Jefferson from Keele University.
He will discuss how many of the issues raised by the latest round of unrest connect us to a longer history of social forces and problems that were already being identified by academic analysts in the 1970s.
Dr Atkinson said: “Fundamental questions have already been asked by academics and even financial analysts about how public interventions - including policing, education, welfare and housing – and economic exclusion and anger at social inequality combined to produce this social volatility.
"Yet the political response has largely addressed only the symptoms of the riots: adopting more strenuous forms of sentencing, policing and riot control. Such responses seem likely to prevent many communities from becoming safe again.”
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