When riots have colour

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just...

English Riots: Learning from the pas...

Learning from the past, looking to the future: What now? Sam Farooq, University of Gloucester Dr Sam Farooq is a researcher and lecturer in Sport, Outreach and Development at the University of Gloucestershire,...

CfP Studies In Social and Political ...

Studies in Social and Political Thought General Call for Papers – Fall 2011 Studies in Social and Political Thought is soliciting papers from graduate students and scholars working in the areas of social...

Providing meaning: give a little bit...

I was once asked by Mark Carrigan, editor of The Sociological Imagination, what I have learnt from studying Sociology, this was my brief response: “In a nutshell, Sociology has given me specific tools that...

UK Riots and Sociological Imaginatio...

So with London in flames for the third night in a row and, for the first time, disturbances spreading outside of the capital, the British population are asking the natural question – what the fuck is going...

What’s ‘pure and simple’ about what ...

30 years after the infamous inner-city riots in Brixton (London), Handsworth ( Birmingham) and Toxteth (Liverpool), events over the last week have given us new iconic images of rioting youth.  Then as now...