John Foran
Biographic Data
| ID | 227449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Foran |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Foran |
| SIGNATURE | FORAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 168 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
What Is Climate X? An Essay on Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann’s Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future
This essay critically assesses Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann’s Climate Leviathan, arguing that its excellent framework for thinking about the various possible futures of global climate governance provides valuable strategic and theoretical perspectives for the global climate-justice movement to better fight for its preferred outcome, which the authors call Climate X and which this essay terms, somewhat interchangeably, climate democracy, radical…
Climate Futures: Re-Imagining Global Climate Justice
Approaching the issues of climate change and climate justice from a range of diverse perspectives including those of culture, gender, indigeneity, race, and sexuality, as well as challenging colonial histories and capitalist presents, Climate Futures boldly addresses the apparent inevitability of climate chaos. Seeking better explanations of the underlying causes and consequences of climate change, and mapping strategies toward a better future, o…
Revolutions and Movements for Radical Social Change
Although rare events, revolutions have helped define the modern age. They are significant as often inspiring, human‐directed attempts to refashion the world for the better; they have also typically fallen far short of the goals of their makers. Whether political or social, violent or nonviolent, the transformation of society by revolution has proved a complex and challenging field of study
Feminist Futures: Reimagining Women, Culture and Development
Straddling disciplines and continents, Feminist Futures interweaves scholarship and social activism to explore the evolving position of women in the South. Working at the intersection of cultural studies, critical development studies and feminist theory, the book's contributors articulate a radical and innovative framework for understanding the linkages between women, culture and development, applying it to issues ranging from sexuality and the g…
Whose Utopia? Our Utopia! Competing Visions of the Future at the UN Climate Talks
Social movements move and grow by autopoesis-by calling their prospective ranks to order using public pronouncements replete with consequential assumptions about the world as they see it. In the same way, governing bodies and vested economic interests stake out opposing public positions. In the wake of the crucial international climate negotiations in Paris, December 2015, at which the nations adopted the first truly universal climate treaty, we …
Beyond Insurgency to Radical Social Change: The New Situation
The Arab Spring and U.S. Occupy movements surprised the world in 2011, showing that movements for radical social change remain viable responses to the intertwined crises of globalization: economic precarity, political disenchantment, rampant inequality, and the long-term fuse of potentially catastrophic climate change. These movements possess political cultural affinities of emotion, historical memory, and oppositional and creative discourses wit…
Let us change the world without taking power violently
Written in the form of a letter to a comrade, this text presents a political balance sheet on the work of John Holloway on radical social change. The strength of his work lies in its acute insight into the psychology of subjects resisting capitalism, the expansion of the concept of political agency to embrace myriad forms of everyday 'breaks' from capitalism's systemic grip, and the poetic prose that graces Holloway's major works, Change the Worl…
Sexual Politics in Modern Iran
On the Edges of Development: Cultural Interventions
Introduction: From the Edges of Development Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kurian and Debashish Munshi Part 1: Refusing Representations of Development 1. October 17, 1961 Moustafa Bayoumi 2. Ode to Quasheba: Resistance Rituals Among Higgler Women in Jamaica Hume N. Johnson 3. Plural Economies and the Conditions for Refusal: Gendered Developments in Bangkok Ara Wilson 4. Dancing on the Edge: Women, Culture, and a Passion for Change Kum-Kum Bh…
Theorizing the Cuban Revolution
An assessment of the outcomes of the Cuban Revolution in terms of theories of both the causes and outcomes of revolutions in general reveals that that the revolution has been spectacularly successful in terms of ensuring the well-being of the vast majority of Cubans, while at the same time failing to deliver fully democratic institutions and freedoms. The success of the revolution in maintaining itself against U.S. hostility and the deepening of …
Feminist futures: From dystopia to eutopia
Revolution in the Making of the Modern World
Since the early 1980s, China has been hailed as the success story of post- socialist transition, shifting its revolutionary course via a reform that has generated the world’s most dynamic growth over a quarter of a century and elevated it to the forefront of nations attracting foreign investment. Often eclipsed in this glowing picture are enduring, even exacerbated, structures of inequality and the vibrant forms of popular resistance these have s…
Revolution in the making of the modern world: Social identities, globalization, and modernity
Preface John Barber. Foreword: Roads to Modernity: Revolutionary and Other Goran Therborn 1. Revolution in the Making of the Modern World John Foran, David Lane and Andreja Zivkovic Part 1: From 1789 to 1989: Revolutions in Europe 2. Understanding Revolution John Dunn 3. Revolution and Democracy: The European Experience Harald Wydra 4. of State Socialism or Class Revolution? David Lane Part 2: Social Identities, Modernity, and New Modes of Strugg…
Revolutions
Ever since the French Revolution of 1789, revolutions have helped define the modern age. Though rare events, they have been associated with the emergence of, and transitions to, democracy, capitalism, and socialism. They are significant as often inspiring, human‐directed attempts to refashion the world for the better; they have also typically fallen far short of the goals of their makers. Their complexity has challenged scholars and revolutionari…
Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions
Taking Power analyzes the causes behind some three dozen revolutions in the Third World between 1910 and the present. It advances a theory that seeks to integrate the political, economic, and cultural factors that brought these revolutions about, and links structural theorizing with original ideas on culture and agency. It attempts to explain why so few revolutions have succeeded, while so many have failed. The book is divided into chapters that …
Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions
Confronting an empire: Sociology and the U.S.-made world crisis
Theorizing Revolutions
The Sociology of Revolutions: Are There Any Ways Forward
Political Cultures of Opposition: Exploring Idioms, Ideologies, and Revolutionary Agency in the Case of Nicaragua
Using interview data from Nicaragua, we propose the concept of “political cultures of opposition” for bringing culture and agency into the study of revolutions, and linking the subjective elements of experience and emotion with the social structural ones of organizations and networks. We use evidence from the Nicaraguan uprising of the 1970s to show how a repressive political structure was experienced by ordinary citizens, who turned to two polit…
Women, culture, development: A New Paradigm for Development Studies
We argue that existing approaches to development, including the women in development [WID] and gender and development [GAD] perspectives, fall short in their treatment of culture, and that a new paradigm, which we term 'Women, Culture and Development' [WCD], represents a way forward. Linking the fields of feminist studies, cultural studies and critical development studies, a WCD framework highlights culture as lived experiences and structures of …
Dangerous populations? Concepts for the comparative study of social movements in Qajar Iran
The future of revolutions at the fin-de-siecle
Modes of production in pre‐capitalist Iran: Reflections on Abbas Vali's pre‐capitalist Iran: A theoretical history
Third World Foucault
Theories of Revolution Revisited: Toward a Fourth Generation
Les recents developements dans la theorisation sociologique de la revolution sont interroges, critiques et evalues du point de vue de l'emergence d'un nouveau paradigme. L'A. passe en revue les apports des theories des annees 70 (Tilly, Paige et Skocpol) et 80, puis l'apport des structuralistes a propos d'action, de structure sociale et de culture. L'A. conclut en suggerant un nouveau paradigme base sur des processus culturels, politiques et sur …
Women, culture, development: A New Paradigm for Development Studies
We argue that existing approaches to development, including the women in development [WID] and gender and development [GAD] perspectives, fall short in their treatment of culture, and that a new paradigm, which we term 'Women, Culture and Development' [WCD], represents a way forward. Linking the fields of feminist studies, cultural studies and critical development studies, a WCD framework highlights culture as lived experiences and structures of …
Revolutionary outcomes in Iran and Nicaragua: Coalition fragmentation, war, and the limits of social transformation
Fragile Resistance: Social Transformation in Iran from 1500 to the Revolution
This study, beginning with the rise of the Safavid dynasty in 1501 and tracing the transformation of Iran'a social structure, offers an interpretive synthesis of Iranian history. It argues that Iranian social structure is historically the product of both internal and external dynamics and that growing dependence on the West has produced a series of resistance movements that have been built on fragile social bases
The Long Fall of the Safavid Dynasty: Moving beyond the Standard Views
If the Revolution of Persia has been so astonishing, when taken only in a general View, and according to the very imperfect Ideas we can form of it from the Gazettes and other publick News Papers, we may affirm, it will appear still more amazing, when we come to give a particular Account of the remote Causes and Events that prepar'd the Way to it for above twenty Years
Political Cultures of Opposition: Exploring Idioms, Ideologies, and Revolutionary Agency in the Case of Nicaragua
Using interview data from Nicaragua, we propose the concept of “political cultures of opposition” for bringing culture and agency into the study of revolutions, and linking the subjective elements of experience and emotion with the social structural ones of organizations and networks. We use evidence from the Nicaraguan uprising of the 1970s to show how a repressive political structure was experienced by ordinary citizens, who turned to two polit…
A Theory of Third World Social Revolutions: Iran, Nicaragua, and El Salvador Compared
Existing theories of revolution are briefly presented and critiqued. Building on recent work, a new model is introduced in which the key variables are the effects of dependent development on social structure, the exclusionary nature of repressive, personalistic dictatorships, the elaboration of political cultures of resistance, and a dual crisis consisting of a simultaneous economic downturn and an 'opening' in the world-system. The combination o…
Beyond Insurgency to Radical Social Change: The New Situation
The Arab Spring and U.S. Occupy movements surprised the world in 2011, showing that movements for radical social change remain viable responses to the intertwined crises of globalization: economic precarity, political disenchantment, rampant inequality, and the long-term fuse of potentially catastrophic climate change. These movements possess political cultural affinities of emotion, historical memory, and oppositional and creative discourses wit…
The Modes of Production Approach to Seventeenth-Century Iran
A number of the basic works on Iranian history have attempted to characterize seventeenth-century Iran as a whole, usually from a non-Marxist perspective. Vladimir Minorsky, for example, employs the term “tribal feudalism” to describe the pre-'Abbas I system, and speaks of the “great transformation” in the period to 1630 from tribal feudalism to “patrimonial absolutism.” These leads have been followed by Nikki Keddie, with “tribal feudalism”; Ale…
The future of revolutions at the fin-de-siecle
Theorizing the Cuban Revolution
An assessment of the outcomes of the Cuban Revolution in terms of theories of both the causes and outcomes of revolutions in general reveals that that the revolution has been spectacularly successful in terms of ensuring the well-being of the vast majority of Cubans, while at the same time failing to deliver fully democratic institutions and freedoms. The success of the revolution in maintaining itself against U.S. hostility and the deepening of …
Feminist futures: From dystopia to eutopia
The strengths and weaknesses of Iran's populist alliance: A class analysis of the constitutional revolution of 1905?1911
The Concept of Dependent Development as a Key to the Political Economy of Qajar Iran (1800–1925)
A central controversy in the economic history of Iran revolves around the nature of the changes that occurred in the nineteenth century: was there an economic “decline” or, on the other hand, can one see the “beginnings of modernization” in the long reign of the Qajar dynasty from 1800 to 1925? Did living standards rise or fall? Did the level and type of consumption improve or deteriorate for the majority of the population? And were the dominant …
Let us change the world without taking power violently
Written in the form of a letter to a comrade, this text presents a political balance sheet on the work of John Holloway on radical social change. The strength of his work lies in its acute insight into the psychology of subjects resisting capitalism, the expansion of the concept of political agency to embrace myriad forms of everyday 'breaks' from capitalism's systemic grip, and the poetic prose that graces Holloway's major works, Change the Worl…
What Is Climate X? An Essay on Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann’s Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future
This essay critically assesses Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann’s Climate Leviathan, arguing that its excellent framework for thinking about the various possible futures of global climate governance provides valuable strategic and theoretical perspectives for the global climate-justice movement to better fight for its preferred outcome, which the authors call Climate X and which this essay terms, somewhat interchangeably, climate democracy, radical…
Reinventing the Mexican Revolution: The Competing Paradigms of Alan Knight and John Mason Hart
Future generations will regard 1994 as a watershed year in the history of Mexico. In January, in the impoverished southern state of Chiapas, a guerrilla insurgency of indigenous people shook the complacency of the Mexican state just as it was congratulating itself on the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in the United States Congress (the collapse of the peso at the end of the year raised further doubts about the the future of th…
The Modes of Production Approach to Seventeenth-Century Iran
A number of the basic works on Iranian history have attempted to characterize seventeenth-century Iran as a whole, usually from a non-Marxist perspective. Vladimir Minorsky, for example, employs the term “tribal feudalism” to describe the pre-'Abbas I system, and speaks of the “great transformation” in the period to 1630 from tribal feudalism to “patrimonial absolutism.” These leads have been followed by Nikki Keddie, with “tribal feudalism”; Ale…
The Concept of Dependent Development as a Key to the Political Economy of Qajar Iran (1800–1925)
A central controversy in the economic history of Iran revolves around the nature of the changes that occurred in the nineteenth century: was there an economic “decline” or, on the other hand, can one see the “beginnings of modernization” in the long reign of the Qajar dynasty from 1800 to 1925? Did living standards rise or fall? Did the level and type of consumption improve or deteriorate for the majority of the population? And were the dominant …
Islam, Politics, and Social Movements
Taken together the essays in this work not only provide research essential to the study of Islamic societies and Muslim peoples, but also set a standard for the concrete study of local situations and illuminate the forces shaping the of modern Muslim societies. This collection is unique in its sophisticated interpretation of the social protest and political resistance movements in Muslim countries during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Th…
Misagh Parsa, Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution (New Brunswick, N.J., and London: (Rutgers University Press, 1989). Pp. 348
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Human Rights in Iraq
Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914. Gershon Shafir
The strengths and weaknesses of Iran's populist alliance: A class analysis of the constitutional revolution of 1905?1911
A Historical-Sociological Framework for the Study of Long-Term Transformations in the Third World 1
Autocracy, Modernization, and Revolution in Russia and Iran
The Long Fall of the Safavid Dynasty: Moving beyond the Standard Views
If the Revolution of Persia has been so astonishing, when taken only in a general View, and according to the very imperfect Ideas we can form of it from the Gazettes and other publick News Papers, we may affirm, it will appear still more amazing, when we come to give a particular Account of the remote Causes and Events that prepar'd the Way to it for above twenty Years
A Theory of Third World Social Revolutions: Iran, Nicaragua, and El Salvador Compared
Existing theories of revolution are briefly presented and critiqued. Building on recent work, a new model is introduced in which the key variables are the effects of dependent development on social structure, the exclusionary nature of repressive, personalistic dictatorships, the elaboration of political cultures of resistance, and a dual crisis consisting of a simultaneous economic downturn and an 'opening' in the world-system. The combination o…
Fragile Resistance: Social Transformation in Iran from 1500 to the Revolution
This study, beginning with the rise of the Safavid dynasty in 1501 and tracing the transformation of Iran'a social structure, offers an interpretive synthesis of Iranian history. It argues that Iranian social structure is historically the product of both internal and external dynamics and that growing dependence on the West has produced a series of resistance movements that have been built on fragile social bases
Theories of Revolution Revisited: Toward a Fourth Generation
Les recents developements dans la theorisation sociologique de la revolution sont interroges, critiques et evalues du point de vue de l'emergence d'un nouveau paradigme. L'A. passe en revue les apports des theories des annees 70 (Tilly, Paige et Skocpol) et 80, puis l'apport des structuralistes a propos d'action, de structure sociale et de culture. L'A. conclut en suggerant un nouveau paradigme base sur des processus culturels, politiques et sur …
Cattle, Capitalism and Class: Ilparakuyo Maasai Transformations.Peter Rigby
Revolutionary outcomes in Iran and Nicaragua: Coalition fragmentation, war, and the limits of social transformation
The Iranian revolution and the study of discourses: A comment on Moaddel
(1994). The Iranian revolution and the study of discourses: A comment on Moaddel. Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 51-63
Fragile Resistance: Social Transformation in Iran from 1500 to the Revolution
Class, Politics, and Ideology in the Iranian Revolution. Mansoor Moaddel
Ideology and Revolution in Iran
Modes of production in pre‐capitalist Iran: Reflections on Abbas Vali's pre‐capitalist Iran: A theoretical history
Third World Foucault
Race, class, and gender in the making of the Mexican revolution
(1996). Race, class, and gender in the making of the Mexican revolution. International Review of Sociology: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 139-156
Reinventing the Mexican Revolution: The Competing Paradigms of Alan Knight and John Mason Hart
Future generations will regard 1994 as a watershed year in the history of Mexico. In January, in the impoverished southern state of Chiapas, a guerrilla insurgency of indigenous people shook the complacency of the Mexican state just as it was congratulating itself on the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in the United States Congress (the collapse of the peso at the end of the year raised further doubts about the the future of th…
The future of revolutions at the fin-de-siecle
Dangerous populations? Concepts for the comparative study of social movements in Qajar Iran
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