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Anatomies of revolution
- Title
- Anatomies of revolution / George Lawson.
- Author
- Lawson, George, 1972-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xi, 288 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "There are two main ways of approaching the study of revolution in the contemporary world - and they are both wrong. On the one hand, revolutions appear to be everywhere: on the streets of Kobane, Caracas, and Tehran; in the rhetoric of groups like Podemos and Black Lives Matter; and in the potential of technologies to reshape people's lives. Rarely do weeks go by without a revolution of one kind or another being proclaimed. In recent years, figures as varied as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Emmanuel Macron, Tarana Burke, Xi Jinping, Tawakkol Karman, and Elon Musk have been labelled as revolutionaries, while the hugely popular musical Hamilton, and the even more popular Star War series, have eulogised revolutionary struggle. This broadening of the concept of revolution goes beyond its take-up by the mass media and in popular culture - www.revolution.com is a venture capitalist firm, www.revolution.co.uk is a software company, and www.revolution.com.au is a flea and heartworm treatment for dogs and cats. But is revolution really just a marketing trope, investment strategy, or pet service? And can it be street mobilization, social movement, and technological breakthrough at the same time? If revolution is everywhere, perhaps it is nowhere"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The rights and wrongs of revolution -- Revolutionary dynamics -- Within and beyond the fourth generation -- Anatomires of revolution -- Revolutionary situations : England and Chile -- Revolutionary trajectories : Cuba and South Africa -- Revolutionary outcomes : Iran and Ukraine -- Revolutionaries in the contemporary world -- Revolutionary futures.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-661
- ISBN
- 9781108482684
- 1108482686
- 9781108710855
- 1108710859
- LCCN
- 2019019449
- OCLC
- 1088337187
- Author
- Lawson, George, 1972- author.
- Title
- Anatomies of revolution / George Lawson.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-661