期刊名称：Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest
电子版ISSN：2330-1392
出版年度：2015
卷号：2
期号：2
页码：37-55
出版社：Punctum Books
摘要：This article explores the social dynamics in the city of Salford at the time of the Pendleton riot,which took place amidst the four days of national rioting that began with the killing of MarkDuggan in Tottenham by the Metropolitan Police Service. Attempting to counter what we see asa dominant narrative of the riots as 'shopping with violence', this article explores the developmentof the significant disorder in Salford through a triangulation of accounts, including an extensivereview of journalistic accounts, alongside interviews from a dozen people who witnessed the riotsas police officers, residents and spectators. Beginning with an overview of the events of August9th 2011, we argue that the deployment of officers in riots gear in the vicinity of Salford Precinctproved provocative, and created a focal point for the widespread antagonism felt towards thepolice. Furthermore, we suggest that an understanding of local contextual factors is critical bothin terms of answering the question ‘why Salford?’, but also in terms of explaining the ferocityof the violence targeted towards officers of Greater Manchester Police (in contrast to the focuson looting in nearby Manchester city-centre). Interpreting the riots as a response to punitivepolicing policies that have accompanied state-directed policies of large-scale gentrification, wehighlight the degree to which the 'contestations over space' that characterised the riot pointed toan underlying politics of resistance (despite lacking 'formal' political articulation).
关键词：August 2011 English Riots; Salford; gentrification; policing; class
