Cleveland’s Hough riots of 1966: ghettoisation and egalitarian (re)inscription

2014/03/05 by Paul W. Hanson · 4 citations
Social Sciences · #Criminology #Critical Theory and Political Philosophy #Democracy #Economics #Italian Fascism and Post-war Society #Law #Neighbourhood (mathematics) #Order (exchange) #Political economy #Political science #Political theory and Gramsci #Politics #Sociology

paper · doi:10.1080/13562576.2013.879773

published in Space and Polity 18(2), 153-167 (Taylor & Francis)

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Abstract

This article is concerned with Cleveland's Hough riots of 1966. The Hough neighbourhood experienced rapid racial transition and ghettoisation as a result of urban renewal, suburbanisation and freeway construction. The riots, it is argued, rather than being primarily a frustrated reaction to ghetto conditions, represented what Jacques Rancière terms “democratic politics”: an appearance of the people in the order of the police. Attention to political re-inscription processes may provide scholars and activists with the tools needed to build linkages between political events.

Citations

• Poetics and Performances as Critical Perspectives on Language and Social Life

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• Hough, Cleveland [wikipedia]

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