This Is an Uprising by Mark Engler

This Is an Uprising by Mark Engler

There is a craft to uprising -- and this craft can change the world

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.

Engler, Mark: - 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.

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ISBN 13	9781568585703
ISBN 10	1568585705
Title	This Is an Uprising
Author	Mark Engler
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Avalon Publishing Group
Year published	2017-10-26
Number of pages	384
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