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The promise of violence: Collective memory and the making of revolutionaries in Iran

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Abstract

Revolutionaries in Iran choose to identify memories of the Iran-Iraq War as their 'collective' memory to mark the war era as the temporal reference in history - the time of times, or sometimes even a time beyond time. Can a sole event and its violence truly become - for some - the all-encompassing, constituting element of history and memory? This book pursues this question and follows revolutionaries in the maze of 'collective' memory to offer a temporal account of the breakdown of happenings - as well as the mending of happenings through the force of remembrance.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherManchester University Press
ISBN (Print)9781526179982
Publication statusPublished - 2026

Publication series

NamePOLITICAL ETHNOGRAPHY

Keywords

  • temporality
  • future past
  • political violence
  • messianism
  • armed resistance

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