bThe story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world b--b abbnd what comes nextb p From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result. Over four years, acclaimed journalist and author of iThe Jakarta Methodi Vincent Bevins carried out hundreds of interviews around the world. The result is a stirring work of history built around one question How did so many mass protests lead to the opposite of what they asked for p From the so-called Arab Spring to Gezi Park in Turkey, from Ukraine's Euromaidan to student rebellions in Chile and Hong Kongi, i iIf We Burni renders street movements and their consequences in gripping detail. Bevins draws on his own strange experiences in Brazil, where a progressive-led protest explosion led to an extreme-right government that torched the Amazon. p Careful investigation reveals that conventional wisdom on revolutionary change