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<p>In the summer of 2024, a wave of extremist right-wing violence swept across the United Kingdom, fuelled by anti-migrant, Islamophobic, and racist vitriol. This moment symbolized wider tensions in the contemporary British landscape: polarizing debates on immigration, race and class, the long-term impacts of neoliberal austerity politics, and the continued dehumanization of minority communities. This article places radical care at the centre of analysis, exposing how marginalized communities mobilize to fill the gaps where the state has failed to provide and protect. In histories of structural violence and state neglect, radical care emerges as a necessity to resist, survive and thrive on the ‘island of strangers’. As the affective, relational resistance against an oppressive, violent politics, radical care is not only a form of survival but cultivates the collective capacities and skills necessary to envision and enact political transformation.</p>

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After the 2024 UK Riots: Radical Care on an ‘Island of Strangers’

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    2026年4月20日

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  • Uma Ramachandran

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In the summer of 2024, a wave of extremist right-wing violence swept across the United Kingdom, fuelled by anti-migrant, Islamophobic, and racist vitriol. This moment symbolized wider tensions in the contemporary British landscape: polarizing debates on immigration, race and class, the long-term impacts of neoliberal austerity politics, and the continued dehumanization of minority communities. This article places radical care at the centre of analysis, exposing how marginalized communities mobilize to fill the gaps where the state has failed to provide and protect. In histories of structural violence and state neglect, radical care emerges as a necessity to resist, survive and thrive on the ‘island of strangers’. As the affective, relational resistance against an oppressive, violent politics, radical care is not only a form of survival but cultivates the collective capacities and skills necessary to envision and enact political transformation.