Do you know what normative theorizing means? The article in its first few sentences addresses both the academic and non-academic discussion surrounding riots:

Do you know what normative theorizing means? The article in its first few sentences addresses both the academic and non-academic discussion surrounding riots: "Yet these defenders focus on riots' effectiveness rather than its legitimacy. They do not defend rioting on normative grounds. The lack of normative theorizing in academic scholarship about riots is even more striking."