After Grenfell: violence, resistance and response
by Bulley, Dan Edkins, Jenny El-Enany, Nadine Okri, Ben Scraton, Phil
On the 14th June 2017, a fire engulfed a tower block in West London, seventy-two people lost their lives and hundreds of others were left displaced and traumatised. The Grenfell Tower fire is the epicentre of a long history of violence enacted by government and corporations. On its second anniversary activists, artists and academics come together to respond, remember and recover the disaster. The Grenfell Tower fire illustrates Britain's symbolic order; the continued logic of colonialism, the d…
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- Full title :After Grenfell : violence, resistance and response / edited by Dan Bulley, Jenny Edkins and Nadine El-Enany.
Summary
On the 14th June 2017, a fire engulfed a tower block in West London, seventy-two people lost their lives and hundreds of others were left displaced and traumatised. The Grenfell Tower fire is the epicentre of a long history of violence enacted by government and corporations. On its second anniversary activists, artists and academics come together to respond, remember and recover the disaster. The Grenfell Tower fire illustrates Britain's symbolic order; the continued logic of colonialism, the disposability of working class lives, the marketisation of social provision and global austerity politics, and the negligence and malfeasance of multinational contractors. Exploring these topics and more, the contributors construct critical analysis from legal, cultural, media, community and government responses to the fire, asking whether, without remedy for multifaceted power and violence, we will ever really be 'after' Grenfell? With poetry by Ben Okri, photographs by Sam Boal and contributions from Phil Scraton, Nadine El-Enany, the Radical Housing Network and Sarah Keenan, this volume is the first interdisciplinary exploration of the Grenfell Tower fire.
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- Publication Date:©2019
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Pluto Press
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2019
Notes
"With contributions from Ben Okri, Lowkey, Parveen Ali and the Radical Housing Network"--Cover.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxxi, 208 pages : : illustrations, map ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780745339603, 0745339603, 9780745339580, 0745339581
- oclc:on1057374932
- LC Classification:HM671
- Dewey Decimal:303.3/7209421
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