If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution Bevins Vincent
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution Bevins Vincent The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world -- and what comes nextFrom 2010 to 2020, more people…
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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution Bevins Vincent
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world -- and what comes nextFrom 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Over four years, acclaimed journalist and author of The Jakarta Method Vincent Bevins carried out hundreds of interviews around the world. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result.
Bevins draws on his own strange experiences in Brazil, where a progressive-led protest explosion The result is a stirring work of history built around one question: How did so many mass protests lead to the opposite of what they asked for?From the so-called Arab Spring to Gezi Park in Turkey, from Ukraine's Euromaidan to student rebellions in Chile and Hong Kong, If We Burn renders street movements and their consequences in gripping detail.