{"id":5166,"date":"2011-08-10T07:34:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T12:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=5166"},"modified":"2011-08-10T07:34:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T12:34:37","slug":"whats-behind-the-u-k-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/08\/10\/whats-behind-the-u-k-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s behind the U.K. riots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jsEZr3s1aBA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Okay, it&#8217;s just an ad&#8230; and for a book that focuses on a single node  within a complex, multi-scaled set of relations. But that node  ought to  be  obvious, and the fact that it <em>isn&#8217;t <\/em>tells us as much   about the   last 40  years as we need to know to start fixing things.<\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalitytrust.org.uk\/resource\/the-spirit-level\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalitytrust.org.uk\/blog\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>H\/t to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/aug\/08\/context-london-riots?\">Nina Power<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, it&#8217;s just an ad&#8230; and for a book that focuses on a single node within a complex, multi-scaled set of relations. But that node ought to be obvious, and the fact that it isn&#8217;t tells us as much about the last 40 years as we need to know to start fixing things. 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