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Notes

1. “Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects: The riots one year on” at The Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, London South Bank University in conjunction with the Institute for Policy Studies in Education 28/9/12. Just a few weeks later, many of the same themes were probed at a session entitled “Riots: One year on: assessing the state of the nation” at the Institute for Ideas think tank Battle of Ideas event at the Barbican Centre, London with panellists including Sociology Professor Frank Furedi, David Lammy MP and Guardian columnist Zoe Williams 20/10/12 See http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2012/session_detail/6754

2. See (i) Sociological Research Online, 16 (4) 24 Refereed Rapid Response Section: Recent Social Unrest In England at http://www.socresonline.org.uk/16/4/contents.html (ii) “Responding to the riots and social disorder of August 2011: a themed issue of Safer Communities Journal” January 2012 vol 11 no. 1 (iii) Thesis Eleven, April 2012 vol. 109 No. 1

3. The show “London’s Burning” was aired on 29/11/11 and starred David Morrissey. See http://www.channel4.com/info/press/programme-information/city-on-fire

4. For example, see http://infantile-disorder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-riots-in-their-own-words.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter