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Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere

Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions is a 2011 book by British journalist and writer Paul Mason. An updated edition, titled Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions, was released in 2013.[1][non-primary source needed]

Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions
Cover of the first edition
AuthorPaul Mason
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SubjectsArab Spring, Anti-austerity protests in Europe, Occupy movement, Great Recession
Published2011
PublisherVerso Books
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages244
ISBN978-1844678518

Synopsis

Mason analyses the wave of popular protest, revolution and revolt from the Arab Spring, the Occupy movement to the 2011 England riots. Mason travels globally from Athens to Cairo to put the events into context and argues that the events "reflect the expanding power of the individual and calls for new political alternatives to elite rule and global poverty".[2][non-primary source needed]

Reception

In the New Statesman George Eaton, who described Mason as "possibly the most engaged mainstream journalist of our age", noted that "thanks to his compulsively vivid style, however, even sceptics will find this a page-turner".[3] In Peace News the book is strongly praised as "a treasure trove for activists" and an "important, consistently thrilling book" while Mason is complimented as being "closer to the politics of the street than any other mainstream journalist currently working". However, the reviewer argues that "Mason gets a bit too wrapped up in the excitement at times. Certainly, his gushing descriptions of the young people at the centre of events are perhaps a little wide-eyed".[4]

In The Observer Ian Birrell characterises the book as "passionately written" but claims that Mason tries to suit the events to his anti-capitalist views, noting that "the evils of capitalism and neoliberalism are presented as one of they [sic] key causes of the Arab spring".[5]

A lecture was held at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2012 by Mason regarding the book.[6][non-primary source needed]

References

  1. ^ "VersoBooks.com". Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  2. ^ "VersoBooks.com". Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  3. ^ Eaton, George (10 February 2012). "Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: the New Global Revolutions by Paul Mason". New Statesman. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  4. ^ Sinclair, Ian (March 2012). "Paul Mason, Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions". Peace News. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  5. ^ Birrell, Ian (14 January 2012). "Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions by Paul Mason – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  6. ^ London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (7 February 2012). "Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions". Retrieved 25 January 2017 – via YouTube.

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