John Foran (sociologist)

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Name John Foran		Role Sociologist

Education University of California, Berkeley (1988) Books Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada

John Foran (born 1955) is an American sociologist with research interests in global climate justice; radical social movements, revolutions, and radical social change; Third World cultural studies; and Latin American and Middle Eastern studies. He has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and is a professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Selected publications

On the Edges of Development: Cultural Interventions (coeditor, Routledge, 2009)

Revolution in the Making of the Modern World: Social Identities, Globalization, and Modernity (coeditor, Routledge, 2008)

Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Feminist Futures: Re-imagining Women, Culture and Development (coeditor, Zed Press, 2003);

The Future of Revolutions: Re-thinking Radical Change in the Age of Globalization (ed., Zed Press, 2003);

Theorizing Revolutions (ed., Routledge, 1997);

Fragile Resistance: Social Transformation in Iran From 1500 to the Revolution (Westview Press, 1993).

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