Afterlives of Revolution
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Afterlives of Revolution

Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman

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Afterlives of Revolution

Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman

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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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Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9781503635791
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Middle Eastern History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Note on Transliteration and Translations
  9. List of Acronyms
  10. Map of Dhufar
  11. Introduction: Former Revolutionaries, Lasting Legacies
  12. 1. Anti-colonialism and Counterinsurgency
  13. 2. The Messiness of Social Change
  14. 3. Patronage, Coercion, and Transformed Spaces
  15. 4. Kinship, Values, and Networks
  16. 5. Everyday and Extraordinary Interactions
  17. 6. Resources of Unofficial Commemoration
  18. Conclusion: Postrevolutionary Platforms for Progressive Politics
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index