Crowds in the 21st Century

John Drury is Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Sussex, UK.Clifford Stott is Visiting Professor in the Socio-Technical Centre, University of Leeds and Managing Director at CCM (Crowd & Conflict Management) Limited.

• Foreword David Canter 1. Contextualising the crowd in contemporary social science John Drury and Clifford Stott 2. The Madrid bombings and popular protest: misinformation, counter-information, mobilisation and elections after ‘11-M’ Cristina Flesher Fominaya 3. Public order policing in South Yorkshire, 1984–2011: the case for a permissive approach to crowd control David P. Waddington 4. Post G20: The challenge of change, implementing evidence-based public order policing James Hoggett and Clifford Stott 5. The crowd as a psychological cue to in-group support for collective action against collective disadvantage Martijn van Zomeren and Russell Spears 6. Crowd disasters: a socio-technical systems perspective Rose Challenger and Chris W. Clegg 7. Part of the solution, not the problem: the crowd's role in emergency response Jennifer Cole, Montine Walters and Mark Lynch 8. The experience of collective participation: shared identity, relatedness and emotionality Fergus Neville and Stephen Reicher 9. On modelling the influence of group formations in a crowd Gerta Köster, Michael Seitz, Franz Treml, Dirk Hartmann and Wolfram Klein 10. Contributions of social science to agent-based models of building evacuation B. E. Aguirre, Sherif El-Tawil, Eric Best, Kimberly B. Gill and Vladimir Fedorov 11. Mass action and mundane reality: an argument for putting crowd analysis at the centre of the social sciences Stephen Reicher