Sorry for the Inconvenience But This Is an Emergency: The Nonviolent Struggle for Our Planet's Future

Author:   Lynne Jones
Publisher:   C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
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9781911723035


Pages:   448
Publication Date:   07 March 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Sorry for the Inconvenience But This Is an Emergency: The Nonviolent Struggle for Our Planet's Future


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As floods and fires rage across the planet, ever more people are embracing nonviolent action to achieve political change. Can it work? Doctor and aid workerLynneJonesoffers a compelling, ground-level account of the last five years of UK protests, exploring how and why ordinary citizens have adopted extraordinary methods to confront the climate and nature crises. Sharing her 1980s experiences opposing nuclear weapons at Greenham Common, and her journey in movements like Extinction Rebellion today,Jonesreflects on public history and her personal story to unpack nonviolent protest in a world on the brink. Can we learn from past movements? How to communicate with those who disagree? What kind of disruption is most effective in Western democracies? Is property damage nonviolent? Is the law just? How important are direct interventions, boycotts and non-cooperation? What can indigenous campaigners of the Global South teach us? A lifetime of activism has taughtJonesthat we all have more power than we realise. It's time to use that power - before it's too late. 'Vivid and livid, a compelling and compassionate book about how to make the world a better place. Not only has Lynne Jones participated in many of the landmarks of civil disobedience, she writes about them with crystal clarity. As you read, it's hard not to feel history torque, it's hard not to get excited about change.' - Mark Cousins, filmmaker and writer

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Author:   Lynne Jones
Publisher:   C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Imprint:   C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
ISBN:  

9781911723035


ISBN 10:   1911723030
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   07 March 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

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"""Vivid and livid, a compelling and compassionate book about how to make the world a better place. Not only has Lynne Jones participated in many of the landmarks of civil disobedience, she writes about them with crystal clarity. As you read, it's hard not to feel history torque, it's hard not to get excited about change."" -- Mark Cousins, filmmaker and writer ""Using her remarkable experience as a tireless nonviolent activist, Lynne Jones asks probing questions about how to promote social and climate justice. Her inspiring stories and diary entries from the frontline show movingly that we all can help create a better world."" -- Anne Karpf, sociologist, journalist and author of How Women Can Save the Planet"


"""Vivid and livid, a compelling and compassionate book about how to make the world a better place. Not only has Lynne Jones participated in many of the landmarks of civil disobedience, she writes about them with crystal clarity. As you read, it's hard not to feel history torque, it's hard not to get excited about change."" -- Mark Cousins, filmmaker and writer""Using her remarkable experience as a tireless nonviolent activist, Lynne Jones asks probing questions about how to promote social and climate justice. Her inspiring stories and diary entries from the frontline show movingly that we all can help create a better world."" -- Anne Karpf, sociologist, journalist and author of How Women Can Save the Planet"


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Lynne Jones OBE is a child psychiatrist, WHO and UNICEF consultant, and author of acclaimed books including Outside the Asylum and Then They Started Shooting. BBC Radio, The New Statesman, the London Review of Books and O, The Oprah Magazine have featured her field diaries from conflict and disaster areas.

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