Urban Riots in Europe, Post‐2000
Since the start of the new millennium there have been four major instances of urban “rioting” in Europe, each of which has given rise to prolonged academic and/or public theoretical speculation regarding the underlying political origins and motives of such action. The term “rioting” is often rejected as inappropriate by academic and political commentators, on the grounds that it often used to suggest “wanton criminality” or, oppositely, to imply a degree of political awareness and ambition that is actually lacking among participants. Here we shall be employing the more neutral descriptor of “disorders” in referring to such events.
Re-Thinking Urban Social Movements, ‘Riots’ and Uprisings: An Introduction
During the last decade, European cities have been shaken by a wave of urban collective action. In this book, we argue that this wave needs to be understood in connection with the structural context of neoliberal urbanism, and that it can be analysed using the concept of ‘urban social movement’. This means that we go against conventional approaches to some of these collective acts, which researchers and media have labelled ‘riots’. Considering the intensity, spread, duration and social dimensions of the ‘rioting’ that occurred in a number of Europe’s major cities in this period, we prefer to describe them as ‘urban uprisings’, referring to a moment of rapid spread of collective action in an urban context, from district to district and/or city to city, which may or may not include violence, looting and torching. Consider the scale of the urban uprisings in the following brief introduction of the cases dealt with in this book, and the difficulty of making a conventional distinction between (disorganised) ‘riots’ and (organised) movement protest.
Young people in Europe: Labour Markets and Citizenship
Introduction Jacques van Hoof and Harriet Bradley Part I: The reconstruction of youth citizenship: Youth in the labour market: citizenship or exclusion? - Herwig Reiter and Gary Craig Social protection policies for young people: a cross-national comparison - Gill Jones Part II: Changing labour markets: Inclusion and exclusion: Young people and their contemporary market values - Wim Plug and Manuela Du Bois-Reymond Youth unemployment and job-seeking behaviour in Europe: - Jose Luis Alvaro and Alicia Garrido Winners and losers: young people in the 'new economy' - Harriet Bradley Young people in the labour market in Hungary and Slovenia: problems and perspectives - Klara Foti, Martina Trbanc, Miroljub Ignjatovic Excluded youth or young citizens? Ethnicity, young people and the labour market in three EU countries - Gary Craig, Hans Dietrich and Jerome Gautie Activation or alienation? Youth unemployment within different European welfare communities - Jan Carle and Torild Hammer Part III: Policy options: Vocational education and the integration of young people in the labour market: the case of the Netherlands - Jacques van Hoof Young people's transitions between education and the labour market: the Italian case - Francesca Bianchi Integration into work through active labour market policies in different welfare state regimes - Ira Malmberg-Heimonen and Ilse Julkenen Conclusion: Fractured transitions: the changing context of young people's labour market situations in Europe - Harriet Bradley and Jacques van Hoof.