Open AccessPeckham, Poundland, Post its and the Peace Wall: Staging a Post‐Riot Renewal
Author(s) -
ROBERTS SIMON
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
ethnographic praxis in industry conference proceedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1559-8918
pISSN - 1559-890X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-8918.2012.00049.x
Subject(s) - icon , scholarship , articulation (sociology) , ethnography , presentation (obstetrics) , history , criminology , sociology , law , political science , anthropology , medicine , politics , computer science , radiology , programming language
This presentation explores the response of residents in Peckham, an inner city London community, to the riots that took place in August 2011. On a boarded up shop window they created the ‘Peacewall’‐ a mass of post‐it notes declaring their relationships with Peckham. The Peacewall became a national icon of post‐riot renewal. By drawing on anthropological scholarship on south Asian communal riots, and more recent writing on the use of post it notes within corporations, I provide an ethnographic account of post‐riot renewal and an exploration of Post it notes as tools in the staging and articulation of ideas by those in positions of structural weakness.