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The promise of violence
Collective memory and the making of revolutionaries in Iran
Series: Political Ethnography
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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...
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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.
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Description
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.
Series: Political Ethnography
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781526179982
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 14 July 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Illustration: 42 black & white illustrations
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 17.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 603g
Pages: 304
About the Author
Younes Saramifar is an Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
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