BOOK TALK: Uprising: Brixton 1981 - Matthew Clement

Speaker

Matthew Clement is an associate professor in Criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London. Having worked as a careers adviser and teacher in the 1990s and as a community worker and youth justice worker in the 2000s, Matthew has since worked at several universities, publishing in journals such as Race & Class, Social Justice, Critical Criminology and the European Journal of Criminology on topics including the history of riots and anti-racism, knife crime, Social movements from populism to black lives matter, state crimes and labelling processes.

Abstract - TBC 

Matthew will be talking about his forthcoming book, Uprising: Brixton 1981 which presents a radical, in-depth survey of the Brixton uprising of 1981 and the social inequalities and institutional racism of British politics and policing that led to it.