This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century - Couverture souple

Engler, Mark; Engler, Paul

 
9781568585703: This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century
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ISBN 10 : 1568585705 ISBN 13 : 9781568585703
Editeur : Bold Type Books, 2017

Synopsis

"Absorbing... Ambitious... Indispensable. A genuine gift to social movements everywhere." -Naomi Klein

From protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to Occupy, the Arab Spring, and #BlackLivesMatter, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force political change. When mass movements erupt onto our television screens, the media consistently portrays them as being spontaneous and unpredictable. Yet, in this book, Mark and Paul Engler look at the hidden art behind such outbursts of protest, examining core principles that have been used to spark and guide moments of transformative unrest.

With incisive insights from contemporary activists, as well as fresh revelations about the work of groundbreaking figures such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Gene Sharp, and Frances Fox Piven, the Englers show how people with few resources and little conventional influence are engineering the upheavals that are reshaping contemporary politics.

Nonviolence is usually seen simply as a philosophy or moral code. This Is an Uprising shows how it can instead be deployed as a method of political conflict, disruption, and escalation. It argues that if we are always taken by surprise by dramatic outbreaks of revolt, we pass up the chance to truly understand how social transformation happens.

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À propos de l?auteur

Mark Engler, a writer based in Philadelphia, is an editorial board member at Dissent, a contributing editor at Yes! Magazine, and author of How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy (Nation Books).

Paul Engler is founding director of the Center for the Working Poor, based in Los Angeles. He worked for more than a decade as an organizer in the immigrant rights, global justice, and labor movements.

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Éditeur
Bold Type Books
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1568585705
ISBN 13 
9781568585703
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
384
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1568587333 ISBN 13 :  9781568587332
Editeur : Bold Type Books, 2016
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