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

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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 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. New Read This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century [ Author ] Mark Engler [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr I figure with the human race facing its possible end in this very century, that hopelessness may not be a productive emotion I mean, I completely understand despair and paralyzing fear and blind hedonistic escapism, been there, but days of productive disruption against the corporate state may be a better use of my time And not alone, but with others, preferably for instance, my largely individualistic pacifist stance has done little in recent years to stop endles...For anyone interested in understanding how nonviolent social movements are born, evolve and either fail or succeed, this is the book for you The Engler brothers walk readers through some of the most inspiring movements and discuss, with both anecdotal and empirical evidence, how these movements either changed the world or petered out and died ugly deaths There is real research quoted in this book and you might be surprised to find that most social movements need only 3.5% of the population to For anyone interested in understanding how nonviolent social movements are born, evolve and either fail or succeed, this is the book for you The Engler brothers walk readers through some of the most inspiring movements and discuss, with both anecdotal and empirical evidence, how these movements either changed...Fairly good guide to nonviolent political action tactics and strategy Using famous case studies like India s independence movement and the struggles of the civil rights movement to show what devices and strategies to employ to make gains for your movement...I loved this book A lot of us who have been involved in organizing that felt like we were eking out incremental wins, and then get caught up in a wave of movement activity like Occupy wondered how it all worked I feel like this books goes ...This book is a trifle wordy and dry, but well worth the effort to read It begins with Gandhi and brings us right up to the Occupy movement, using familiar examples along the way to show what works and what doesn t work and why I found it both enlightening and encouraging It s good to kno...This Is an Uprising How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty First Centuryby Mark Engler, Paul EnglerNotes while readingIntroduction Throughout history there have been war and non violent resistance Recently, MLK, Serbia, arab spring, Occupy Wall street Media talks of these as spontaneous, but often times they are not.Chap 1, Strategic Turn Gene Sharp, a Korean war resister goes to jail for 10 months Later becomes an authority on the theory of non violent revolution principle This Is an Uprising How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty First Centuryby Mark Engler, Paul EnglerNotes while readingIntroduction Throughout history there have been war and non violent resistance Recently, MLK, Serbia, arab spring, Occupy Wall street Media talks of these as spontaneous, but often times they are not.Chap 1, Strategic Turn Gene Sharp, a Korea...An extremely important and readable synthesis of several major thinkers in the field of civil resistance This book fairly outlines the longstanding debate between structural organizing and mass movements as drivers of social change, and it details a compelling and emergent fusion of these schools momentum driven organizing This book isn t particularly dense or theoretical, so it s a great place to jump into this area of study if it is new to you or if you are looking for leads to further r An extremely important and readable synthesis of seve...A laborious read with nothing new to add on the subject.A great book that explains the basics of community organizing and non violent resistance It provides ample historical explanations and assessments A bit academic, but worth the read.Very impressive strategic reflection on the social movements of the past decades, offering some basic blueprints for delivering social change.

This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century
  • 02 October 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 368 pages
  • 1568587333
  • Mark Engler
  • This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century