Revolution Beyond the Event: The Afterlives of Radical Politics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1800081197 ISBN 13: 9781800081192

Publisher: UCL Press, 2023

Synopsis

A critical perspective on the lived realities of revolutionary afterlives.

Revolution Beyond the Event brings together leading international anthropologists and 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. 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.

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About the Authors

Charlotte Al-Khalili is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in anthropology at the University of Sussex. Her work focuses on revolutionary politics and subjectivities and religious temporalities and practices in Syria and Turkey. She is coeditor of Revolution Beyond the Event, also published by UCL Press.

Narges Ansari is a social anthropologist.

Myriam Lamrani is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellow at Harvard University and at Panteion University. 

Kaya Uzel is a PhD candidate in anthropology at UCL.  

Edition details

• Publisher: UCL Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1800081197
• ISBN 13: 9781800081192
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218
• Editor: Al-Khalili Charlotte, Ansari Narges, Lamrani Myriam, Uzel Kaya