{"id":5016,"date":"2011-08-10T13:05:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T11:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/?p=5016"},"modified":"2011-08-10T13:05:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T11:05:43","slug":"die-psychologie-der-britischen-plunderer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2011\/08\/10\/die-psychologie-der-britischen-plunderer_5016","title":{"rendered":"Die Psychologie der britischen  Pl\u00fcnderer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ein interessanter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/aug\/09\/uk-riots-psychology-of-looting\">Artikel von Zoe Williams im Guardian<\/a> versucht den jungen Leuten auf die Spur zu kommen, die w\u00e4hrend der Krawalle Sportschuhe und Flachbildschirme klauen:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first day after London started burning, I spoke to\u00a0Claire Fox, radical leftwinger and resident  of Wood Green. On Sunday morning, apparently, people had been not just  looting H&amp;M, but trying things on first. By Monday night, Debenhams  in Clapham Junction was empty, and in a cheeky touch, the streets were  thronging with people carrying Debenhams bags. Four hours before, I\u00a0had  still thought this was just a north London thing. Fox said the riots  seemed nihilistic, they didn&#8217;t seem to be politically motivated, nor did  they have any sense of community or social solidarity. This was  inarguable. As one brave woman in Hackney put it: &#8222;We&#8217;re not all gathering together for a cause, we&#8217;re running down Foot Locker.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>I  think it&#8217;s just about possible that you could see your actions  refashioned into a noble cause if you were stealing the staples: bread,  milk. But it can&#8217;t be done while you&#8217;re nicking trainers, let alone  laptops. In Clapham Junction, the only shop left untouched was  Waterstone&#8217;s, and the looters of Boots had, unaccountably, stolen a load  of Imodium. So this kept Twitter alive all\u00a0night with tweets about how  uneducated these people must be and\u00a0the condition of their digestive  systems. While that palled after a bit, it\u00a0remains the case that these  are shopping riots, characterised by their consumer choices: that&#8217;s the  bit we&#8217;ve never seen before. A violent act by the authorities,  triggering a howl of protest \u2013 that bit is as old as time. But crowds  moving from shopping centre to shopping centre? Actively trying to avoid  a confrontation with police, trying to get in and out of JD Sports  before the &#8222;feds&#8220; arrive? That bit is new.<\/p>\n<p>By 5pm on Monday, as I  was listening to the brave manager of the Lewisham McDonald&#8217;s  describing, incredulously, how he had just seen the windows stoved in,  and he didn&#8217;t think they&#8217;d be\u00a0able to open the next day, I wasn&#8217;t  convinced by nihilism as a reading: how can you cease to believe in law  and order, a moral universe, co-operation, the purpose of existence, and  yet still believe in sportswear? How can you despise culture but still  want the flatscreen TV from the bookies? Alex Hiller,  a marketing and consumer expert at Nottingham Business School, points  out that there is no conflict between anomie and consumption: &#8222;If you  look at Baudrillard and other people writing in sociology about  consumption, it&#8217;s a\u00a0falsification of social life. Adverts promote a  fantasy land. Consumerism relies upon people feeling disconnected from  the world.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The type of goods being looted seems peculiarly relevant: if they were  going for bare necessities, I think one might incline towards sympathy. I  could be wrong, but I don&#8217;t get the impression that we&#8217;re looking at  people who are hungry. If they were going for more outlandish luxury,  hitting Tiffany&#8217;s and Gucci, they might seem more political, and thereby  more respectable. Their achilles heel was in going for things they  demonstrably want.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ein interessanter Artikel von Zoe Williams im Guardian versucht den jungen Leuten auf die Spur zu kommen, die w\u00e4hrend der Krawalle Sportschuhe und Flachbildschirme klauen: The first day after London started burning, I spoke to\u00a0Claire Fox, radical leftwinger and resident of Wood Green. 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