Insurgent witness : archetypes of action in revolutionary Iran / Arash Davari

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davari, Arash, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iran--History--Revolution, 1979.

Iran.

Group identity.

Social movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"How do we describe the collective identity of people who make a popular revolution? Notwithstanding marked differences, most accounts understand revolutionary collectives as partisan and relegate spectators to irrelevance– or, worse, to the ignominy of cowards and traitors. Revisiting histories of the 1979 revolution in Iran, Arash Davari explores how millions of people defied expectations and joined popular assemblies to demand the fall of the Pahlavi regime. Through the lens of recent global social movements, Insurgent Witness presents an archetype of collective identity as partisan and spectator at once. Combining novel findings with a fresh methodological approach to previously considered collections, this book presents a distinct concept of revolutionary subjectivity– one that describes the terms of mass revolt in Iran and challenges prevailing assumptions about social change and popular sovereignty in contemporary political thought"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

On inexactitude in decolonization

Human rights guerrillas

The existence of nonexistence

An intermediary doctrine

Revolution as taziyeh

Taziyeh as methodology

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed August 6, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Davari, Arash Insurgent witness

ISBN:

9781009851077

1009851071

9781009851107

1009851101

OCLC:

1578772911

Publisher Number:

CIPO000415825

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license