As part of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology Colloquium Series, Alice Wilson presents: Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman

The Dhufar Revolution was fought between 1965-1976 in an attempt to depose Oman’s British-backed Sultan and advance social ideals of egalitarianism and gender equality. But following counterinsurgency victory, Oman’s government expunged the revolution from sanctioned historical narratives. Alice Wilson considers the 'social afterlives' of revolutionary values and networks and how veteran militants have used kinship and daily socializing to reproduce networks of social egalitarianism and commemorate the revolution in unofficial ways. Recognizing that those typically depicted as coopted can still reproduce counterhegemonic values, Afterlives of Revolution illuminates a condition all too common across Southwest Asia and North Africa: the experience of former revolutionaries living under the authoritarian state they once contested.

Alice is the author of Sovereignty in Exile: a Saharan Liberation Movement Governs (Pennsylvania, 2016) and Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman (Stanford,2023).

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