This article suggests a new perspective on the political signification of riots, using the 2011 England riots as a case. The sociological literature tends to look for the political signification of riots in the riots themselves. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s notion of the dispositive, the article develops a new approach that analyses the optical grids in which riots are made visible as objects for thought and action that can be either political or apolitical. By analysing the case of the 2011 England riots, the article shows how the dispositives that made the riots visible make it possible to ascribe a both obscure and radical political signification to the riots. The article opens up a new line of inquiry about the relation between riots and politics, and allows us to reconsider the political signification of riots.

本文以 2011 年英格兰骚乱为例，对骚乱的政治意义提出了新的观点。社会学文献倾向于在暴乱本身中寻找暴乱的政治意义。文章借鉴了米歇尔·福柯的决定性概念，开发了一种新方法来分析光学网格，在这些光学网格中，骚乱被视为政治或非政治的思想和行动的对象。通过分析 2011 年英格兰骚乱的案例，文章展示了使骚乱可见的决定因素如何使将既模糊又激进的政治意义归于骚乱成为可能。这篇文章开辟了一条关于骚乱与政治关系的新线索，让我们重新思考骚乱的政治意义。