Revolutionaries and Global Politics : : War Machines from the Bolsheviks to ISIS / / ed. by Ondrej Ditrych.

Provides a novel perspective on the concept and practice of revolutionary movement as an international phenomenonDraws on Deleuze and Guattari’s war machine and understanding of hybridityIntroduces the concept of hybrid revolutionaries as movements that seek to overturn the existing global order, ye...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (204 p.) :; 2 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Introduction: Revolution, Hybridity and Global Order
  • Part I Hybrid Revolutionaries and Where to Find Them
  • 2 War Machines, Multiplicity and Rage against the Order: A Theory of the Hybrid Revolutionary
  • 3 The Revolutionary Symbol Has No Power: A Semiotic Reading of Hybridity
  • Part II The Islamic State: Inside Out
  • 4 ISIS’s War Machine Between the Revolution and the International System and Its Adaptation
  • 5 On Top of the Revolutionary Game: Uncovering the ‘Islamic State’s’ Revolutionary Message
  • 6 ‘Islamic State’ and the Neoliberal War Machine: Power, Resistance and Revolution
  • Part III . . . And Not That Exceptional?
  • 7 The Typical Troublemakers: Bolsheviks as Hybrid Revolutionaries
  • 8 First ‘International Terrorists’ or Local Non‑recognised Government? Palestinians and Hybrid Sovereignty
  • 9 The Khomeinists: Between Sedentarisation and Perpetual Revolution
  • 10 Sealed with a Thumbprint: The Hybrid Politics of a Martyrdom Contract
  • 11 Iran, Proxy Warfare and the Tradition of State Sovereignty
  • 12 Conclusion: Recalling the Hybrid Revolutionary
  • Index