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Revolution Beyond the Event
The afterlives of radical politics
Contributor(s)
Ansari, Narges (editor)
Uzel, Kaya (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
Revolution Beyond the Event brings together leading international anthropologists alongside emerging
scholars to examine revolutionary legacies from the MENA region, Latin America
and the Caribbean. It explores the idea that revolutions have varied afterlives
that complicate the assumptions about
their duration, pace and progression, and argues that a renewed focus on the
temporality of radical politics is essential to our understanding of
revolution. Approaching revolution through its relationship to time, the book
is a critical intervention into attempts to define revolutions as bounded events
that act as sequential transitions from one political system to another. It pursues
an ethnographically driven rethinking of the temporal horizons that are at
stake in revolutionary processes, arguing that linear views of revolution are inextricably
tied to notions of progress and modernity. Through a careful selection of case studies,
the book provides a critical perspective on the lived realities of
revolutionary afterlives, challenging the liberal humanist assumptions implicit
in the ‘modern’ idea of revolution, and reappraising the political agency of
people caught up in revolutionary situations across a variety of ethnographic
contexts.
Keywords
revolution;anthropology;longue duree;Libya;Nicaragua;Yemen;Iran;Cuba;The Caribbean;Social Sciences;Political Science;Anthropology of Cuba;Peru;Grenada;Temporality;Event;Rupture;afterlives;radical politics;Political anthropology;Historical anthropologyDOI
10.14324/111.9781800081185ISBN
9781800081192, 9781800081208, 9781800081215, 9781800081185Publisher
UCL PressPublisher website
https://www.uclpress.co.uk/Publication date and place
London, 2023Classification
Social and cultural anthropology
Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions
Political science and theory