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Afterlives of Revolution - Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman (Paperback)
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Afterlives of Revolution - Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman (Paperback)
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The Dhufar Revolution was fought between 1965-1976, in an attempt
to depose Oman's British-backed Sultan and advance social ideals of
egalitarianism and gender equality. Dhufar, the southernmost
governorate in today's Sultanate, captured global attention for its
revolutionaries and their liberation movement's Marxist-inspired
social change. But following counterinsurgency victory, Oman's
government expunged the revolution from sanctioned historical
narratives. Afterlives of Revolution offers a groundbreaking study
of the legacies of officially silenced revolutionaries. How do
their underlying convictions survive and inspire platforms for
progressive politics in the wake of disappointment, defeat, and
repression? Alice Wilson considers the "social afterlives" of
revolutionary values and networks. Veteran militants have used
kinship and daily socializing to reproduce networks of social
egalitarianism and commemorate the revolution in unofficial ways.
These afterlives revise conventional wartime and postwar histories.
They highlight lasting engagement with revolutionary values, the
agency of former militants in postwar modernization, and the
limitations of government patronage for eliciting conformity.
Recognizing that those typically depicted as coopted can still
reproduce counterhegemonic values, this book considers a condition
all too common across Southwest Asia and North Africa: the
experience of defeated revolutionaries living under the
authoritarian state they once contested.
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