If We Burn

The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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Vincent Bevins: If We Burn (2023, Headline Publishing Group)

English language

Published Aug. 1, 2023 by Headline Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-1-0354-1227-3
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4 stars (1 review)

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Interesting account of the last decade's protests

4 stars

Really good as a journalistic account of the major protests of the 2010s, combining historical background with chronologies of the protests and lots of interviews with those involved. Significantly skewed towards Brazil, where the author lived for a number of years. Somewhat weaker on analysis, besides the impression that leaderless horizontalism can lead to a protest 'succeeding', but then just opening up space for someone more organized (and, often, more right-wing and/or authoritarian) to sweep in. Apparently I need to read Rodrigo Nunes next :)

Subjects

  • History, modern, 21st century
  • Globalization
  • Political science, history