If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Bevins, Vincent
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Bevins, Vincent

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

"A remarkable new history" (David Wallace-Wells, New York Times Magazine) of a decade aflame--and what we can...
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Author: Vincent Bevins
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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Bevins, Vincent

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

$51.74
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Bevins, Vincent

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

$51.74
Author: Vincent Bevins
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
"A remarkable new history" (David Wallace-Wells, New York Times Magazine) of a decade aflame--and what we can learn from its embers

From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result. Acclaimed journalist Vincent Bevins carried out hundreds of interviews around the world, guided by a single, puzzling question: How did so many mass protests lead to the opposite of what they asked for?

The result is a stirring work of history that connects events in a dozen countries and reveals that conventional wisdom on revolutionary change is gravely misguided. From the so-called Arab Spring to Gezi Park in Turkey, from Ukraine's Euromaidan to student rebellions in Chile and Hong Kong, Bevins provides a blow-by-blow account of street movements and their consequences, recounted in gripping detail. In this groundbreaking study of an extraordinary chain of events, protesters and major actors look back on successes and defeats, offering urgent lessons for the future.



Author: Vincent Bevins
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 09/02/2025
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781541788985

About the Author
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world--and what comes next

From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result. Over four years, acclaimed journalist and author of The Jakarta Method Vincent Bevins carried out hundreds of interviews around the world. The result is a stirring work of history built around one question: How did so many mass protests lead to the opposite of what they asked for?

From the so-called Arab Spring to Gezi Park in Turkey, from Ukraine's Euromaidan to student rebellions in Chile and Hong Kong, If We Burn renders street movements and their consequences in gripping detail. Bevins draws on his own strange experiences in Brazil, where a progressive-led protest explosion led to an extreme-right government that torched the Amazon.

Careful investigation reveals that conventional wisdom on revolutionary change has been gravely misguided. In this groundbreaking study of an extraordinary chain of events, protesters and major actors look back on successes and defeats, and reflect on what they wish they had done differently, offering urgent lessons for the future.
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