Description
Book SynopsisThroughout the 19th century, revolutionary movements united intellectuals, artists, dissidents, and significant segments of the population in joint crusades in the name of justice or liberation against empires and aristocratic elites, often across class, religious, race and national lines. Duty to Revolt takes the Greek Revolution as a foundational historical departure point to investigate historical continuities and discontinuities in transnational and commemorative aspects of revolutionary wars.
This edited collection provides an innovative and comprehensive contribution to the study of historical revolutions and their commemoration, as well as contemporary protests and uprisings, and how they are communicated today in everyday networked media.
Duty to Revolt is the first work of its kind to take an interdisciplinary approach across historical time on this subject and bringing together leading and emerging scholars in several fields, merging history and political science with digital media and communication studies.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: The Duty to Revolt – Transnational and Commemorative Aspects of Revolution; Athina Karatzogianni and George Souvlis
PART 1. HISTORICAL FOCUS
Chapter 2. Colonizing the Past: The Greek Revolution as an Archetypal Instance of Cultural Imperialism; Rosa Vasilaki
Chapter 3. Revolution and Constitutionalism in Africa: The Duty to Revolt in the Sudanese and Congolese Constitutions; Dunia P. Zongwe
Chapter 4. Anti-colonialist Memory, Culture and Politics in Ireland; Niamh Kirk and Seamus Farrell
Chapter 5. Building the New Person: the Greek Revolution in the Mountain Readers; Eleftheria Papastefanaki, Christos Papathanasiou, and Nikos Vafeas
PART 2. COMMEMORATIVE FOCUS
Chapter 6. The Revolutionary Subject and its Affective Modalities: Love-Duty, Sacrifice and the Heroic; Panos Kompatsiaris
Chapter 7. Herstories: Activism, Detention and Torture; Bev Orton and Alexander D. Ornella
Chapter 8. Commemorating the Revolution as a Duty to Obey: From the Rehabilitation of Gregory the V to “Greece 2021” and the “Do-It-Yourself” Bicentenary; Tasos Kostopoulos
Chapter 9. 1821 Tweets: Networks and Discourses around the Greek Revolution Bicentenary; Panos Tsimpoukis and Nikos Smyrnaios
Chapter 10. Digital Storytelling from Below: Revolutionary Athens through a Kaleidoscope; Andromache Gazi, Thodoris Giannakis, Ilias Marmaras, Yiannis Skoulidas, Yannis Stoyannidis, Foteini Venieri, and Stewart Ziff
PART 3 CONTEMPORARY FOCUS
Chapter 11. Firefund.net: An “Online Translocal Connection” of Anarchist(ic) Social Movements; Stamatis Poulakidakos
Chapter 12. From Anti-gentrification to Fab Lab Community: Spatialization of Conflicts, Contentious Politics, and the Limits of Techno-politics in Urban Areas; Leandros Savvides
Chapter 13. Depictions of Emotions in News Media’s Visual Framing of Small-Scale Protests in Greece; Anastasia Veneti
Chapter 14. From Duty to Impulsion: Obstacles to Organizing Future Revolutions; Robert Latham
Chapter 15. Discussing with Roger Hallam, Environmental Revolutionary and co-Founder of Extinction Rebellion; Athina Karatzogianni and Jacob Matthews
