1st Edition
Revolution in the Making of the Modern World Social Identities, Globalization and Modernity
This volume questions whether ideas of revolution are still relevant in the postmodern and globalized world of the twenty-first century.
Featuring contributions from some of the world's leading sociological and political thinkers on revolution, it combines theoretical concerns with a variety of detailed case studies of individual revolutions. Subjects covered include:
- democracy and revolution from 1789 to 1989
- twentieth century revolutions and theories of revolution, including Marxism, modernization and structuralist theories
- revolution in the "Third World" and the variable geometry of the paths to modernity
- Islamic revolutions and modernity
- the 1989 revolutions as "democratic revolutions" or "elite-led transitions"
- globalization, the nation-state and revolution
- empire and "democratic revolution"
- network society and revolution
- Islamic fundamentalism, international terrorism and revolution
- democratic revolution as a new form of revolution
- postmodern theories of revolution
- new social movements, identities and new figures of revolution.
Revolution in the Making of the Modern World will be essential reading for students and scholars of comparative politics, political theory, revolution and political sociology.
Foreword, John Dunn, ‘Understanding revolution’
Editors’ Introduction, John Foran, David Lane & Andreja Zivkovic
Part 1. From 1789 to 1989: Revolutions in Europe
Chapter 1. Goran Therborn, Professor of Sociology, ‘Different roads to modernity, different constellations of class and revolution’
Chapter 2. Harald Wydra, ‘Democracy and revolution: the European experience’
Chapter 3. David Lane, ‘1989: Transformation of state socialism or class revolution?’
Part 2. Social Identities, Modernity and Revolution in the Third World
Chapter 4. Eric Selbin, ‘Stories of revolution in the periphery: agency, culture and class in "Third World" revolutions’
Chapter 5. Ching Kwan Lee and Mark Selden, ‘Class, inequality and China’s revolutions’
Chapter 6. Asef Bayat, ‘Class, revolution and Islam in Middle Eastern modernity’
Chapter 7, Mary-Ann Tétreault, 'Gender and revolution in the Third World'
Part 3. New Modes of Struggle in the (post) Modern World
Chapter 8. Robin Blackburn, ‘Empire, progress and revolution’
Chapter 9. Jeff Goodwin, ‘Understanding revolutionary terrorism’
Chapter 10. Andreja Zivkovic, ‘Virtual revolution? Digital mobilisation, new social movements and new concepts of revolution’
Chapter 11. Fred Halliday, ‘Revolutionary internationalism: 1848-2005. Theories, practices and incoherences’
Part 4. Futures of Revolution, Futures of Modernity
Chapter 12. John Foran, ‘Globalisation and revolution: From Chiapas to Seattle and beyond’
Chapter 13. Valentine M. Moghadam, "Global resistance movements and feminist futures"
Chapter 14. Krishan Kumar, ‘The future of revolution’
Chapter 15. Alex Callinicos, ‘What does revolution mean in the 21st century?’
Afterword, Antonio Negri, ‘Multitude: revolution and constituent power in a post-modern world’
Biography
John Foran is Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA.
David Lane is Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Andreja Zivkovic is a lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, U.K.
'The distinguished scholars in this volume offer a vital updating of our understanding of 'revolution' for the next century. Tackling critical topics from democracy to Islamic revolution to terrorism, these insightful essays show how revolutionary traditions and patterns of revolutionary conflict have been transformed by today's global struggles for freedom and power.' - Jack A. Goldstone, Hazel Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University, USA
