The Future of Revolutions: Rethinking Radical Change in the Age of Globalization

by John Foran (Editor)

In this volume, a number of eminent historians, sociologists, and political scientists who have spent their lives studying revolutionary processes reflect on the age of 20th century of revolutions. They debate questions is the era of revolution over? What might the revolutions of the future look like? The face of transformative politics in the future and the directions of social change rest in large measure on the answers. A range of recent cases are taken up, from the intensely backward-looking movement of the Taliban in Afghanistan, to the magical revolution in Chiapas.

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics

304 pages, Hardcover

First published January 17, 2003

About the author

John Foran (born 1955) is an American sociologist with research interests in global climate justice; radical social movements, revolutions, and radical social change; Third World cultural studies; and Latin American and Middle Eastern studies. He has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and is a professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Selected publications

On the Edges of Development: Cultural Interventions (coeditor, Routledge, 2009)

Revolution in the Making of the Modern World: Social Identities, Globalization, and Modernity (coeditor, Routledge, 2008)

Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Feminist Futures: Re-imagining Women, Culture and Development (coeditor, Zed Press, 2003);

The Future of Revolutions: Re-thinking Radical Change in the Age of Globalization (ed., Zed Press, 2003);

Theorizing Revolutions (ed., Routledge, 1997);

Fragile Resistance: Social Transformation in Iran From 1500 to the Revolution (Westview Press, 1993).