Summer of Unrest: Generation Vexed: What the English Riots Don't Tell Us About Our Nation's Youth (Summer of Unrest)

by Kieran Yates and Nikesh Shukla

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Summer of Unrest (Slight Return). For a few days at the start of August, England was gripped by the riots that erupted in its city centres. Although there were various motivations behind the trouble and a broad spectrum of ages and backgrounds involved, the front pages were emblazoned with images of hooded youths running amok and stories of the revenge of the feral underclass.

In this final part of the Brain Shots: Summer of Unrest series, Nikesh Shukla and Kieran Yates interrogate whether young people are deliberately conforming to a stereotype foisted upon them, and point instead to the creativity and entrepreneurialism that are defining a supposedly 'lost' generation.

An antidote to the broadsheet commentariat, this street-level view of the defining moment of the Summer of Unrest finds much to inspire hope and confidence for our future.

  • ISBN10 1448114756
  • ISBN13 9781448114757
  • Publish Date 27 October 2011
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Vintage Publishing
  • Imprint Vintage Digital
  • Edition Digital original
  • Format eBook (EPUB)
  • Pages 40
  • Language English