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  • If We Burn

  • The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
  • By: Vincent Bevins
  • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
  • Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (23 ratings)

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If We Burn

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Summary

From 2010 to 2020, more people took part in protests than at any other point in human history. Why has success been so elusive?

From the so-called Arab Spring to Gezi Park in Turkey, from Ukraine's Euromaidan to student rebellions in Chile and Hong Kong, the second decade of the twenty-first century was propelled by explosive mass demonstrations. But few people got what they wanted. In too many cases, the protests led to the opposite of what they asked for.

If We Burn is a stirring work of global history built around that strange but fundamental paradox. Acclaimed journalist Vincent Bevins interviewed hundreds of people around the world, and weaves their insights and recollections into a fast-paced, gripping narrative. We follow his own troubling experiences in Brazil, where a protest movement ignited by leftists and anarchists led to an extreme-right government that torched the Amazon.

In the mass protest decade, humanity demonstrated a deep desire for change, and brave individuals started something that has been left unfinished. In this ground-breaking study of an extraordinary chain of events, protesters and major actors offer urgent lessons for those who wish to understand geopolitics today, and create a better world tomorrow.

©2023 Vincent Bevins (P)2023 Hachette Book Group
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Timely, insightful and persuasive history of the important political failures that defined politics for last decades.

This book covers the period of my political coming of age and the global struggles I watched unfold from the UK as a late teen into my twenties. These movements inspired my politics at the time however hearing them dissected and critiqued from participants is invaluable for really understanding them - and more importantly understanding how not to repeat the same mistakes!

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Important and timely

A captivating account of protest and failure in a digital age, working expertly across languages and continents.

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Must read

A brilliantly told and formated telling of the political histoy of protests across the world

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A probing examination of the key protests in the 2010-2019 decade

The past produces the present. This work will stand the test of time as a critical look at protest in the decade. What can future generations learn?

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Good analysis of why socio-political movements fail

I’ve read the Jakarta Method, so I was looking forward to this book. It didn’t disappoint. The whole way through I kept thinking that they should have read Lenin, glad to see Bevins thought the same.

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the protest era which heralded some change in global politics

although a lot of effort has gone into it. the story jumped across 7 different places and it was sometimes hard to follow or to feel engaged.
does shed light on global politics and how mass protests seem to have become a norm almost.

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