Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
'At the end of the summer of 1991 riots exploded in Britain and fighting bled across municipal suburbs in Cardiff, Oxford and Tyneside,' Bea Campbell writes in her introduction to her study, Goliath: Britain's Dangerous Places (1993), 'and angry young men made their mark on history. Nearly five hundred of them were arrested during street spectacles which cost their communities an estimated £12 million. All the neighbourhoods which spontaneously combusted in 1991 are communicating a new kind of crisis, the ordinary 'state of emergency' which is symbolic of an era: they are the effect of Britain's bitter but becalmed political culture. After Margaret Thatcher's new economic order was inaugurated in 1979, these neighbourhoods were doomed. They were evacuated by British business and the economic discipline of the New Right left them unable to make a legitimate living. They were largely abandoned by the main parliamentary political parties, left without representation. 'Poverty', 'despair', 'alienation' — none of these terms exhaust a description of the life of these communities, however. Nor do the purportedly self-evident terms like 'unemployment' or 'hooligans', slung around like slogans in 1991, explain them away.” Briony Lavery's play Goliath is based on Bea Campbell's book: we present here part of Act II, set in Blackbird Leys.
'At the end of the summer of 1991 riots exploded in Britain and fighting bled across municipal suburbs in Cardiff, Oxford and Tyneside,' Bea Campbell writes in her introduction to her study, Goliath: Britain's Dangerous Places (1993), 'and angry young men made their mark on history. Nearly five hundred of them were arrested during street spectacles which cost their communities an estimated £12 million. All the neighbourhoods which spontaneously combusted in 1991 are communicating a new kind of crisis, the ordinary 'state of emergency' which is symbolic of an era: they are the effect of Britain's bitter but becalmed political culture. After Margaret Thatcher's new economic order was inaugurated in 1979, these neighbourhoods were doomed. They were evacuated by British business and the economic discipline of the New Right left them unable to make a legitimate living. They were largely abandoned by the main parliamentary political parties, left without representation. 'Poverty', 'despair', 'alienation' — none of these terms exhaust a description of the life of these communities, however. Nor do the purportedly self-evident terms like 'unemployment' or 'hooligans', slung around like slogans in 1991, explain them away.” Briony Lavery's play Goliath is based on Bea Campbell's book: we present here part of Act II, set in Blackbird Leys.
Goliath: Blackbird Leys, Oxford
Lavery, Briony (Autor:in)
City ; 2 ; 97-103
01.12.1997
7 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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