This Is an Uprising
How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century
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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.]]>
About this Author
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 (Nation Books).
Paul Engler is founding director of the Center for the Working Poor, based in Los Angeles. He worked for more than a decade as an organizer in the immigrant rights, global justice, and labor movements.]]>
Reviews
Tina Rosenberg, New York Times]]>
This Is An Uprising] is an invaluable resource."--Peter Whittaker, New Internationalist]]>
David Swanson, Let's Try Democracy]]>
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Matt Wasserman, The Indypendent]]>
This Is An Uprising], and within minutes I was engrossed... [The Englers] argue, persuasively, that... uprisings that use nonviolent confrontation have changed the world. And they have done it with such passion, intensity, and page-turning storytelling, that I had barely been able to put the book down."--Ellen Michaud, QuakerBooks]]>
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George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence]]>
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Andy Bichlbaum, The Yes Men]]>
Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco]]>
This is an Uprising, Mark and Paul Engler brilliantly unearth, explain, and contextualize the dynamics of breakout mobilizations--both dispelling the popular notion that transformational progress simply arises from historical circumstance, and pushing back on long-held dogma that hinders more successful engineering of people-driven campaigns. For all those who seek to play an effective role in creating social or political change in the modern era, the Englers' book is a must read."--James Rucker, cofounder of ColorOfChange.org and Citizen Engagement Lab]]>
This is an Uprising is a worthwhile read for all activists."--Randy Shaw, Beyond Chron]]>
Maria Elena Durazo, international union vice president for civil rights, diversity, and immigration, UNITE HERE!]]>
Rules for Radicals for a new generation. Mark and Paul Engler have written a defining work on the science of popular movements... A must-read for everyone fighting the battle for justice in this world."--Carlos Saavedra, lead trainer, Ayni Institute and former National Coordinator of United We Dream]]>
This Is An Uprising... The world is already messy and chaotic; social movements make it more so. And so a book like This Is an Uprising-crisply written, rigorous, blessedly free of clichés-is long overdue."--Gabriel Thompson, Truthdig]]>
Pauline Moore, Journal of Peace Research]]>
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