Race and socio-economics at the heart of unrest in the United KingdomIn September 2011 I, along with a number of other early career sociologists, was involved in producing a series of short articles for The Guardian, which reflected on the urban unrest or 'riots' which had beset many UK cities in the summer of that year. The four days of disturbances had been triggered by the shooting of twenty-five year old Mark Duggan, a black…
