EAN: 9781568585703

THIS IS AN UPRISING - MARK ENGLER PAUL ENGLER K...

"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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