{"id":3074,"date":"2011-08-16T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2011-08-14T09:56:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T13:56:34","slug":"anarchy-in-the-uk-a-short-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/3074","title":{"rendered":"Anarchy in the UK: A Short Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Riot shield used as a tea tray (Image by pixel.eight<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I was busy revising two papers last week in view of (re)submitting them before the semester starts, so I didn’t spend much time on the UK riots. Besides, I didn’t think I had anything smart to say about them and I still don’t, given that my own work on riots<\/a> has largely been about food riots in developing countries. So I will let others do the talking:<\/p>\n

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  1. Olaf Storbeck has a very good\u00a0post<\/a> about the economics of riots, in which he discusses a new working paper by researchers at UPF in Barcelona on the relationship between budget austerity and social unrest.<\/li>\n
  2. For those who are na\u00efve enough to believe that “it can’t happen here<\/a>,”\u00a0Ed Glaeser has a very good Bloomberg column<\/a> on when, where, and how the crowd takes to the street.<\/li>\n
  3. Lee Craufurd covers a lot of ground<\/a>, and he has a good discussion of who the rioters are and of what can be done.<\/li>\n
  4. Throughout all this, one of the best Twitter feeds to follow has been @seenfromafar<\/a>, a colleague of mine who knows a lot about ethnicity, identity, and marginalization, and who teaches a course on urban violence. Incidentally, you can also get your ballet fix from her.<\/li>\n
  5. One of the best things I’ve read on the riots has been Forbes’ Tim Worstall, on why there’ll always be an England<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    For further reading on those riots, I suggest Rud\u00e9’s The Crowd in History<\/a><\/em>, on the “classical” food riots in France and England in the 18th and 19th centuries; Walton and Seddon’s\u00a0Free Markets and Food Riots<\/a><\/em>, on the International Monetary Fund’s structural adjustment programs-related riots throughout the developing and emerging world between the 1970s and the 1990s; and Steven Wilkinson’s 2009 review article<\/a> on riots in the Annual Review of Political Science.<\/p>\n

    (HT: Marginal Revolution for the first two links.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Riot shield used as a tea tray (Image by pixel.eight). I was busy revising two papers last week in view of (re)submitting them before the<\/p>\n

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