Why It's Still Kicking off Everywhere The New Global Revolutions

Name: Why It's Still Kicking off Everywhere The New Global Revolutions
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ISBN: 9781844670284

ISBN-10: 1844670287

ISBN-13: 9781844670284

Edition: 2nd 2013

Authors: Paul Mason

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The world is facing a wave of uprisings, protests and revolutions: Arab dictators swept away, public spaces occupied, slum-dwellers in revolt, cyberspace buzzing with utopian dreams. Events we were told were consigned to history—democratic revolt and social revolution—are being lived by millions of people.In this compelling new book, Paul Mason explores the causes and consequences of this great unrest. From Cairo to Athens, Wall Street and Westminster to Manila, Mason goes in search of the changes in society, technology and human behaviour that have propelled a generation onto the streets in search of social justice. In a narrative that blends historical insight with first-person reportage,…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 2/12/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.06" wide x 7.77" long x 0.99" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Paul Mason is an experienced freelance writer and editor of a variety of children's information books, with subjects including extreme sports, geography and travel. Paul is a keen sportsman and particularly enjoys surfing, mountain biking and snowboarding.



Introduction



'Now There Is Freedom': Why Egypt's Revolution Is Not Over



Nobody Saw It Coming: How the World's Collective Imagination Failed



'Trust Is Explosive': Britain's Youth Rebel Against Austerity



So, Why Did It Kick Off? The Social Roots of the New Unrest



Greece: The Anomic State? From Austerity to Social Breakdown



'Error de Sistema': Economic Causes of the Present Unrest



'I Tweet in My Dreams': The Rise of the Networked Individual



In the Tracks of Tom Joad: A Journey through Jobless America



1848 Redux: What We Can Learn from the Last Global Wave



'We Will Barricade': Slum Dwellers versus the Super-rich



Spain Redux: Dispatches from Utopia



Developments in Greece: Love or Nothing



Russia: 'Putin Got Scared'-From the Football Riots to Pussy Riot



The Twenty Reasons, Revisited


Acknowledgements


Notes


Index