Duty to Revolt
Transnational and Commemorative Aspects of Revolution
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Throughout 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.
Chapter 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
George Souvlis holds a PhD in History from the European University Institute and currently teaches at the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Ioannina, Greece. He is also a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Sociology at the University of Crete and the co-coordinator of Dissensus and a principal co-investigator of the research project on socio-political transformations and hate rhetoric in Greece.
Athina Karatzogianni is a Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester. Her research has focused on the intersections between digital media theory, resistance networks and global politics, investigating ICT use by social movements, protest, and insurgency groups. Most recently, she was the Principal Investigator for the European Commission Horizon 2020 project: ‘DigiGen: The Impact of Technological Transformations on the Digital Generation’ leading the work on ICT and the transformation of civic participation (2019-2022).