Abstract
The key aim of this book is to address what the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD 2013) described as a youth ‘crisis’, which played out in the media in the aftermath of violent disturbances in parts of England in August 2011. This ‘event’ — the ‘riots’ — offers an opportunity to use divergent lenses to critique the hegemonic discourse presented for consumption. The ‘riots’ could be read as insurrection, challenging the mainstream media and political discourse of ‘moral panic’ (Cohen 2002, Cooper 2012) and allowing for a different gaze to unsettle the seemingly self-evident: not least, the recognition that those engaged in the events were not exclusively young or of one gender, ethnicity or class, as populist constructions were challenged (Guardian/LSE 2011).
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