ABOUT BOOK

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.