Abstract
This paper is concerned with understanding the urban form and political meaning of the London riots of early August 2011. After briefly outlining events and key location, the discussion begins by analysing the neoliberal city as a context for the distinctiveness of the disturbances, in particular pointing highlighting tendencies towards fragmentation and hierarchy. next, the 2011 unrest is contrasted with the brixton riots of 1981. The paper then engages with the growing body of post-political thought that argues the riots were conformist and consumerist in nature. It is demonstrated using secondary data how such interpretations fail to listen to what participants in the riots had to say about the political motivations of their participation. They also fail to point to the unity that young people across london clearly sought—perhaps unsucberlin J Soziol (2013) 23:51–73 dOI 10.1007/s11609-013-0209-4 „Anti-riots“ und Postpolitik in der neoliberalen Stadt: London im August 2011
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