Revolution beyond the Event : The afterlives of radical politics

List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Charlotte Al-Khalili, Narges Ansari, Myriam Lamrani and Kaya Uzel vii viii xi 1 Part One: The shifting grounds of revolutionary temporality 1 The remains of revolution: disagreements about revolutionary failure in Nicaragua 21 David Cooper 2 Picturing absence in post-revolutionary Yemen Gabriele vom Bruck 43 3 Smoking, praying, killing: the politics of boredom in post-revolutionary Libya 73 Igor Cherstich 4 Religious transformations after the 1979 Iranian Revolution: from Imam Husein as exemplar back to intercessor Mary Elaine Hegland Part Two: Rethinking revolutionary afterlives: anthropology and beyond 5 The ‘revolution before the revolution’: radical organising across the longue durée in twentieth-century Peru David Nugent v 102 131 6 Cosmogony and second nature in revolutionary Cuba Martin Holbraad 154 7 On the question of optimism in troubled times: revolution, tragedy and possibility in Caribbean history 175 Brian Meeks Afterword Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi Index 197 202