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"Aspirational Rioting" - London Riots
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"Clive Bloom, [...] has coined a new term, classifying an ‘underclass’ of youth as the ‘Nando’s Generation’ and defined by consumerism"
"These are riots marked out by the looting of Foot Locker and Nando’s,
the shopping places of Britain’s new underclass". Clive Bloom, The Financial Times
"'In the old days people would put up a poster saying 'Riot on Tuesday, come!'
Now they just tweet it." Clive on BBC Radio London
"This is aspirational rioting - people "buying" the things that they want but not paying for them!" Clive on BBC Radio 4
CLIVE BLOOM
is Emeritus Professor of English and American Studies at Middlesex University,
best-selling author and publisher. When Professor Bloom isn't writing and
researching he divides his time between New York University and The University
of Notre Dame.
Renowned in his field of civil unrest and riots, Clive has been in high demand since the current situation started in London and spread through-out the UK. The article for the the Financial Times describes "the riots as marked out by the looting of Foot Locker and Nando’s, the shopping places of Britain’s new underclass" and has been widely repeated over Twitter.
He has been interviewed by: BBC World Service, BBC Radio London, Sky News Online, Pravda (Russian Newspaper), German Spiegal Online, BBC Radio 4, and BBC 1 Newsround and quoted in The Washington Post.
BBC Newsround has subsequently featured Clive Bloom in a Special "Behind The Riots" Special Edition - here
Interviews with ABC Radio Australia Breakfast News; ABC Saturday Extra 13th August; TNT Magazine; the Irish Times; and Die Presse. The Guardian Society interview will follow Wednesday 17th August; Zoo Magazine next week's edition; and Clive's own article in BBC History Magazine on School Children Rioters in September's Edition.
Clive is also quoted in the following news stories: Orange News, Clyde2 News, Live Magazine, Politics Home - Top 10 Must Reads and the Trinidad and Tobago News Blog.
Books include Restless Revolutionaries, Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts, Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900, Terror Within: The Dream of a British Republic, Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory; and Gothic Horror (Second Edition), all of which have enjoyed international recognition. He is also an occasional feature writer for the London Evening Standard, regularly appears on television and radio and is quoted in the Columbia Book of World Quotations.
Read - Restless Revolutionaries - A History of Britain's Fight for a Republic
***Read Clive Bloom's interview with Lucy Inglis on Revolutionary London here***
Read Clive's interview with The Weekly Worker on Republicanism here
"Bloom is a card-carrying public intellectual, a regular media commentator and the prolific author and editor of books on pulp fiction, Poe and Freud, graphic novels, politics and literature, best-sellers, American Gothic, British horror, violence and the occult. In short, he has street cred" Times Higher Education Magazine
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Read - Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts (Second Edition)
'…[an] ambitious and erudite chronicle of protest in the capital…assiduously researched...' - The Times
Review in The Guardian here
Read Clive Bloom's collected articles on popular culture and politics here
Follow Clive on Twitter @CliveBloom. Contact Clive directly at cbloom4189@aol.com or find him on Linked In.
Emeritus Professor Clive Bloom, Author of Terror Within, Violent London, Bestsellers, Gothic Horror etc