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IF WE BURN
The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
A meticulous investigation into the various protests of the 2010s that aimed to upend standing governments and restructure society but ultimately fell short.
From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history, and the number of mass protests has increased each year by over ten per cent. But we are not living in a world that is more just and democratic as a result. In If We Burn, acclaimed journalist Vincent Bevins sets out to answer a pivotal question: How did so many mass protests lead to the opposite of what they asked for?
From the Arab Spring to the Gezi Park protests in Turkey, to the "V for Vinegar" eruption in Brazil, to Ukraine's Euromaidan uprising, to the student movements in Chile and Hong Kong, Bevins aims to provide a deep history of these movements and their consequences. In doing so, he shows the ways in which the conventional wisdom in 2010 was wrong - but more importantly, he asks protesters and major actors what they wish they had done differently, as they seek to learn urgent lessons for the future. After carrying out over two hundred interviews in ten countries, Bevins carefully reconstructs the mass protests that defined a decade through first-person testimony, bringing fresh analysis to how it is that such powerful explosions and impassioned calls for change have not delivered - at least not yet - the revolution they dreamed.
If We Burn is a unique and captivating exploration of how a time of upheaval was met with vastly different outcomes than hoped for by the idealism that produced it, as well as how such movements might still change the world.
Vincent Bevins is an award-winning journalist and correspondent. He covered Southeast Asia for the Washington Post, reporting from across the entire region and paying special attention to the legacy of the 1965 massacre in Indonesia. He previously served as the Brazil correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, also covering nearby parts of South America, and before that he worked for the Financial Times in London. Among the other publications he has written for are the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Economist, the Guardian, Foreign Policy, the New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and more. Vincent was born and raised in California and spent the last few years living in Jakarta. He's currently living in London, and travels regularly worldwide.
From the Arab Spring to the Gezi Park protests in Turkey, to the "V for Vinegar" eruption in Brazil, to Ukraine's Euromaidan uprising, to the student movements in Chile and Hong Kong, Bevins aims to provide a deep history of these movements and their consequences. In doing so, he shows the ways in which the conventional wisdom in 2010 was wrong - but more importantly, he asks protesters and major actors what they wish they had done differently, as they seek to learn urgent lessons for the future. After carrying out over two hundred interviews in ten countries, Bevins carefully reconstructs the mass protests that defined a decade through first-person testimony, bringing fresh analysis to how it is that such powerful explosions and impassioned calls for change have not delivered - at least not yet - the revolution they dreamed.
If We Burn is a unique and captivating exploration of how a time of upheaval was met with vastly different outcomes than hoped for by the idealism that produced it, as well as how such movements might still change the world.
Vincent Bevins is an award-winning journalist and correspondent. He covered Southeast Asia for the Washington Post, reporting from across the entire region and paying special attention to the legacy of the 1965 massacre in Indonesia. He previously served as the Brazil correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, also covering nearby parts of South America, and before that he worked for the Financial Times in London. Among the other publications he has written for are the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Economist, the Guardian, Foreign Policy, the New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and more. Vincent was born and raised in California and spent the last few years living in Jakarta. He's currently living in London, and travels regularly worldwide.
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