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

Engler, Paul, Engler, Mark

ISBN 10: 1568587333 / ISBN 13: 9781568587332

Editore: PublicAffairs, 2016

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There is a craft to uprising,and this craft can change the worldFrom 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 ground-breaking 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.

Informazioni sull'autore: Mark Engler is a writer in Philadelphia, an editorial board member at Dissent, and codirector of the Whirlwind Institute, a social change strategy center. 
  
Paul Engler has spent more than two decades as an organizer and social movement trainer. He is founder of the Center for the Working Poor, cofounder of the Momentum Training, and codirector of the Whirlwind Institute. 

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Titolo: This Is an Uprising : How Nonviolent Revolt ...
Casa editrice: PublicAffairs
Data di pubblicazione: 2016
Legatura: Rilegato
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