After Grenfell - Violence, Resistance and Response

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.

About the author

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 journals
Jenny 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).

Summary

Activists, academics and artists deliver a myriad of views on the fire for which there has been no justice

Product details

• Authors: Dan Edkins Bulley
• Assisted by: Dan Bulley (Editor), Jenny Edkins (Editor), Edkins Jenny (Editor), Nadine El-Enany (Editor), El-Enany Nadine (Editor)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780745339603
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3960-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; London, Greater London, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, 21st Century, privatization, Social welfare & social services, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social impact of disasters, Social classes, Violence and abuse in society, Housing and homelessness, Regional Government Policies, Political activism / Political engagement