Revolution Beyond the Event: The afterlives of radical politics - Paperback

by Charlotte Al-Khalili (Editor), Narges Ansari (Editor), Myriam Lamrani (Editor)

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.

Author Biography

Charlotte Al-Khalili is a social anthropologist trained in philosophy. She is currently a Leverhulme fellow at Sussex University and a research associate at CéSor. 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.