Tricking Time, Overthrowing a Regime
Reining in the Future in the Yemeni Youth Revolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4380175 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ross Porter (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7674 • E-ISSN: 2047-7716 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/ca.2016.340107 |
| OpenAlex | W2398597363 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 22 |
Based on research at the heart of the 2011 revolution in Yemen, this article explores how a capacity to inhabit the future culminated in a collective act of temporal deception on the part of the revolutionaries. Contrary to the prevalent assumption that the future is something that is worked towards, aspired to, emerging or lying in wait at the end of a distant telos, revolutionary life in Yemen asserts that the future can itself be a way of being, but in the present. Upholding the future involved dramatic acts of selflessness whose value lay not just in where they would lead, but in the acts themselves. This fusion of means and ends, presents and futures, ultimately bred a capacity for endurance that defied the temporal expectations of the regime
Deception · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Futures contract · Futures studies · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Telos · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Peacebuilding and International Security · Philosophy
A bias for hope
After Virtue
Ordinary Ethics
Theses on the Philosophy of History
Time and Free Will
Aryan Invasions over Four Millennia
Radical Hope
Tribal Mediation in Yemen and its Implications to Development
The Human Condition
Politics of Piety
Power Persuasion, and Language
The Anthropology of Time
Anthropology, Pentecostalism, and the New Paul
The Poetic Construction of Self
The Position of Shaykhs Among the Northern Tribes of Yemen
Rethinking time's arrow
Historical narrative, mundane political time, and revolutionary moments
Immanent anthropology
Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming
Continuity Thinking and the Problem of Christian Culture
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |