Riots

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Understanding Riots

   • Matthew Moran, David Waddington

   Pages 1-13

3. The Revised Flashpoints Model of Public Disorder

   • Matthew Moran, David Waddington

   Pages 15-38

4. ‘France in Flames’: The French Riots of 2005

   • Matthew Moran, David Waddington

   Pages 39-65

5. When Beach Life Goes Bad: The Cronulla (Sydney, Australia) Riot of 2005

   • Matthew Moran, David Waddington

   Pages 67-94

6. Neoliberalism, Austerity, and Rage Against the State: The Greek Riots of 2008

   • Matthew Moran, David Waddington

   Pages 95-114

7. Violence and Looting on the Streets of London: The English Riots of 2011

   • Matthew Moran, David Waddington

   Pages 115-140

8. Back to the Future: Race and Riots in Ferguson, Missouri

   • Matthew Moran, David Waddington

   Pages 141-170

9. Conclusion: Further Insights into the Nature of Riots

   • Matthew Moran, David Waddington

   Pages 171-189

10. Back Matter

    Pages 191-212

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The past ten years have been marked by a series of high profile and heavily mediatised riots across the globe. From the overspill of racial tensions in Sydney to anti-police riots in London, democratic societies have witnessed powerful and costly outbursts of anger and violence. But what are the causes of these large-scale episodes of collective disorder? Do they share common features? And what can they tell us about the nature and significance of riots more broadly?


In this book, the authors address these questions and more with a wide-ranging comparative study of rioting in five countries (Australia, England, France, Greece and the United States). Using a revised and expanded version of the Flashpoints Model of Public Disorder, Matthew Moran and David Waddington dissect these violent and ephemeral social phenomena, laying bare their internal logic and demonstrating the essentially political nature of riots.

• International Relations
• violence
• destruction
• public disorder
• collective disorder
• race relations
• muslim
• police

• King's College London, LONDON, United Kingdom

  Matthew Moran

• Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom

  David Waddington

Matthew Moran is Senior Lecturer in International Security in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, UK. He is the author of The Republic and the Riots: Exploring Urban Violence in French Suburbs, 2005-2007.


David Waddington is Professor of Communications and Head of the Communication and Computing Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is author of Policing Public Disorder: Theory and Practice, and co-editor (with Fabien Jobard and Mike King) of Rioting in the UK and France: A Comparative Study.

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