Tricking Time, Overthrowing a Regime: Reining in the Future in the Yemeni Youth Revolution

Porter, Ross

doi:10.3167/ca.2016.340107

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“…One of the ultimate goals of the revolutionary circles exampled in this theme section is to generate social justice through ethical self-transformation (see also Porter 2016Porter , 2017. Th e ethics one upholds is, ultimately, what will foster sweeping societal change.…”

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Revolutionary circles

Holbraad¹,

Lamrani²

2021

Focaal

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Drawing on the contributions of this theme section, this introduction stakes out an agenda for the anthropological study of revolutionary circles. Understood as a powerful model of and for political action, the revolutionary circle renders the desire for radical political change as a function of the circular configuration of the group of people who pursue it. This correlation of political ends with social means puts questions of “political morphology”—actors’ concern with the shape of their relationships—at the center of revolutionary action. As the articles of the theme section illustrate, such a concern with social shapes plays itself out not only in questions of political organization, but also those of personal relationships and ethical comportment, practices of secrecy and dissemination, shared activities and values, and their different potentials for transformation over time.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revolutionary circles

Holbraad¹,

Lamrani²

2021

Focaal

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“…Sometimes it is revolutionary narratives that help subjects to develop this approach, as shown by Porter in his work on the Yemeni revolution (Porter, 2016: 65). Porter, however, does not describe this process in terms of openness, but rather as a way to 'straitjacket the future' (Porter, 2016), and achieve freedom from uncertainty. 33.…”

Section: A Blessing Behind Every Obstaclementioning

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Revolution Beyond the Event

2023

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“…Marching unarmed into gunfire was one of many such coincidences between a will to act and the act itself: Faysal and his men had long willed a peaceful and civil life (but had been left willing), while the revolution provided the mechanism through which this will could be satisfied, albeit momentarily and in an unanticipated manner. As I have discussed elsewhere (Porter 2016), brigades of military defectors arrived at Change Square announcing that only now were they able to act upon their "duty" to the nation and the people. Up until this point, they had believed in an army committed to its duty-and had long imagined what kind of role it would and would not play in the political life of the statebut had instead found themselves working for Saleh's family interests.…”

Section: I-will/ I-canmentioning

confidence: 99%