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oapen-20.500.12657-625762024-03-28T08:18:35Z Revolution Beyond the Event Al-Khalili , Charlotte Ansari, Narges lamrani, myriam Uzel, Kaya 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 anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTV Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory 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. 2023-04-26T10:27:56Z 2023-04-26T10:27:56Z 2023 book 9781800081192 9781800081208 9781800081215 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62576 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International 9781800081185.pdf UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781800081185 10.14324/111.9781800081185 df73bf94-b818-494c-a8dd-6775b0573bc2 9781800081192 9781800081208 9781800081215 220 London open access
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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.
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