Political Sociology of Twenty First Century Revolutions and Resistance - From the Arab World and Iran to Africa, Ukraine and France

A Political Sociology of Twenty-First Century Revolutions and Resistances is an important resource for researchers and current affairs opinion leaders, as well as a key text for courses in social change, political sociology, and social movements, and contemporary social theory.

List of contents

Introduction
1. The Arab Revolutions I: Breakout
2. The Arab Revolutions II: Under Attack
3. The Arab Revolutions III: New Elements Amid Deep Setbacks
4. The Arab Revolutions IV: Defeat and Glimmers of Resurgence
5. Iran on the Verge
6. Ferment in Africa: Sudan’s Revolution and South Africa after Marikana
7. Ukraine and Palestine: Fighting for National Existence
8. France in Turmoil, from the Yellow Vests to the 2023 Mass Strikes and Anti-Police Uprising
Appendix 1. To the Arab Readers of Marx at the Margins
Appendix 2. Two Dialectical Anniversaries, Lukács and Dunayevskaya

About the author

Kevin B. Anderson is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of numerous books, including Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism: A Critical Study (second ed., 2022), Marx at the Margins (2016), Foucault and the Iranian Revolution (with J. Afary, 2005), and the forthcoming The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads.

Summary

A Political Sociology of Twenty-First Century Revolutions and Resistances is an important resource for researchers and current affairs opinion leaders, as well as a key text for courses in social change, political sociology, and social movements, and contemporary social theory.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Anderson, Kevin B. Anderson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032771380
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3277138-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, Colonialism & imperialism, Revolutionary groups & movements, Colonialism and imperialism, Revolutionary groups and movements, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity