After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response

No other account names those to blame so clearly, or so convincingly uncovers the slow violence, the racist attitudes, and the legacy of empire that led to this disaster' Danny Dorling, author of 'Inequality and the 1%'

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. Her current research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, focuses on questions of race and criminal and social justice in death in custody cases. Nadine has written for numerous publications including the Guardian, Media Diversified, Left Foot Forward and Critical Legal Thinking.

Preface - Phil Scraton Introduction - Dan Bulley, Jenny Edkins and Nadine El-Enany Grenfell Tower, June, 2017 - a poem by Ben Okri 1. Everyday Life and Death in the Global City - Dan Bulley 2. Organising on Mute - Daniel Renwick Photo Essay - Samuel Boal 3. Before Grenfell: British Immigration Law and the Production of Colonial Spaces - Nadine El-Enany 4. Struggles for Social Housing Justice - Radical Housing Network, Becka Hudson and Pilgrim Tucker Ghosts of Grenfell - Lowkey 5. A Border in Every Street: Grenfell and the Hostile Environment - Sarah Keenan Photo Essay - Parveen Ali 6. Grenfell on Screen - Anna Sborgi 7. Law, Justice and the Public Inquiry into the Grenfell Tower Fire - Patricia Tuitt The Interloper - Jenny Edkins 8. From Grenfell to Windrush - Gracie M. Bradley 9. Housing Policy in the Shadow of Grenfell - Nigel de Noronha Photo Essay - Yolanthe Fawehinmi 10. ComeUnity and Community in the Face of Impunity - Monique Charles Equity - a poem by Tony Walsh Afterword: The Fire and the Academy - Robbie Shilliam