Book contents
- Global 1979
- The Global Middle East
- Global 1979
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- Orientations
- Introduction
- 1 A Quiet Revolution:
- 2 Globalizing the Iranian Revolution:
- Part I Global Shadows
- Part II Militarized Cartographies
- Part III Hidden Genealogies
- Part IV Circulating Knowledge
- Part V Aspirational Universalisms
- Select Bibliography
- Index
1 - A Quiet Revolution:
In the Shadow of the Cold War
from Orientations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2021
- Global 1979
- The Global Middle East
- Global 1979
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- Orientations
- Introduction
- 1 A Quiet Revolution:
- 2 Globalizing the Iranian Revolution:
- Part I Global Shadows
- Part II Militarized Cartographies
- Part III Hidden Genealogies
- Part IV Circulating Knowledge
- Part V Aspirational Universalisms
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter argues that this volume furnishes a nuanced narrative of the 1979 revolution. The authors explain the revolution within the historic context of two crucial decades leading to the demise of the old regime. This juncture reveals diverse global inspirations driving the revolution. The existing scholarly literature on the Iranian Revolution falls short of fully appreciating the contemporaneity of the revolution as an experience for the Iranians. That is, the Iranian Revolution as a “transnational” social and political event, as experienced by Iranians. The contemporaneity and transnational quality of the experience embed the revolution in the preceding two decades of widespread cultural transfiguration at every social level, in the “quiet revolution.” The “quiet revolution” itself cannot be understood except in terms of a circulatory system of flows of people and ideas between Iran, the West, the Middle East, and Asia, and other countries like the Soviet Union and those in Latin America.
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- Global 1979Geographies and Histories of the Iranian Revolution, pp. 14 - 35Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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