After Grenfell
violence, resistance and response
$60.21
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
20 May 2019
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 coloni…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745339580 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0745339581 |
| Author: | Dan Bulley, Jenny Edkins, Nadine El-Enany |
| Publisher: | Pluto Press |
| Imprint: | Pluto Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 20 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 304g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 135mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
‘No other account names those to blame so clearly, or so convincingly uncovers the slow violence, the racist attitudes, and the legacy of empire that led to this disaster’ – Danny Dorling, author of ‘Inequality and the 1%’
About The Author
Dan Bulley
Dan Bulley is a Reader in International Relations in the Department of Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of two books, Ethics as Foreign Policy: Britain, the EU and the Other (Routledge, 2009) and Migration, Ethics and Power: Spaces of Hospitality in International Politics (Sage, 2017) as well as numerous articles in IR, Geography and interdisciplinary journalsJenny Edkins is Professor of Politics at The University of Manchester. Her books include Face Politics (2015), Missing: Persons and Politics (2011), Trauma and the Memory of Politics (2003) and Whose Hunger? Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid (2000).Nadine El-Enany is Senior Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck School of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Race and Law, and the author of Bordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire (MUP, 2020).
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