Eric Selbin is a

political sociologist Political sociology is an interdisciplinary field of study concerned with exploring how governance and society interact and influence one another at the micro to macro levels of analysis. Interested in the social causes and consequences of how ...

whose primary research interests are

revolutions In political science, a revolution (Latin: ''revolutio'', "a turn around") is a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolts against the government, typically due ...

and related forms of

collective behavior The expression collective behavior was first used by Franklin Henry Giddings and employed later by Robert Park and Ernest Burgess, Herbert Blumer, Ralph H. Turner and Lewis Killian, and Neil Smelser to refer to social processes and events w ...

( resistance,

rebellion Rebellion, uprising, or insurrection is a refusal of obedience or order. It refers to the open resistance against the orders of an established authority. A rebellion originates from a sentiment of indignation and disapproval of a situation and ...

social movements A social movement is a loosely organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a Social issue, social or political one. This may be to carry out a social change, or to resist or undo one. It is a type of Group ...

) as well as

international relations theory International relations theory is the study of international relations (IR) from a theoretical perspective. It seeks to explain causal and constitutive effects in international politics. Ole Holsti describes international relations theories as a ...

. Much of his work has focused on Latin America and the Caribbean, and his volume on modern Latin American revolutions is frequently used as a textbook in courses in

Latin American studies Latin American studies (LAS) is an academic and research field associated with the study of Latin America. The interdisciplinary study is a subfield of area studies, and can be composed of numerous disciplines such as economics, sociology, history ...

and contentious politics. He holds a PhD from the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

and is professor of olitical science at

Southwestern University Southwestern University (Southwestern or SU) is a private liberal arts college in Georgetown, Texas. Formed in 1873 from a revival of collegiate charters granted in 1840, Southwestern is the oldest college or university in Texas. Southwestern o ...

in Georgetown, Texas, where he has also been appointed a university scholar. In 2013, Selbin was appointed a research fellow at the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and he has held appointments at Sweden’s

Umeå University Umeå University ( sv, Umeå universitet; Ume Sami: ) is a public research university located in Umeå, in the mid-northern region of Sweden. The university was founded in 1965 and is the fifth oldest within Sweden's present borders. As of 2015 ...

(2003-2006) and at the Tallinn Postgraduate Summer School in Social and Cultural Studies (2012). In 2014, he was appointed to the Lucy King Brown chair, one of six endowed Brown chairs at Southwestern University. Selbin's most well-known work is ''Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance: The Power of Story'' (2010), which puts forth four different types of "revolutionary story" that have accompanied revolutionary struggles from the

French Revolution The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are considere ...

to the present day: civilizing and democratizing, the social revolution, freedom and liberation, and the lost and forgotten. For Selbin, these narratives, conducted across time and space through processes of myth, memory and mimesis, are the crucible of revolutionary action. Selbin has also collaborated on topics related to

homeschooling Homeschooling or home schooling, also known as home education or elective home education (EHE), is the education of school-aged children at home or a variety of places other than a school. Usually conducted by a parent, tutor, or an onlin ...

and feminism with Helen Cordes, the writer and editor to whom he is married, and their two daughters.

Selected publications

*''Revolution, Rebellion, and Resistance: The Power of Story'' (2010), Zed Books. ''Revolution, Rebellion, and Resistance: The Power of Story'' (2010). Published in German as ''Gerücht und Revolution: Von der Macht des Weitererzählens'' (WBG, 2010), in India (Books for Change, 2011), in Spanish as ''El Poder del Relato: Revolución, rebelión y Resistencia'' (Interzona Editoria, 2012), in Arabic as ثورة تمرد المقاومة: قوة قصة (NCT, 2013), and forthcoming in Turkish (Abis Yayinlari, 2014). *''Decentering International Relations'' (2010), co-authored with Meghana Nayak, Zed Books. *''Modern Latin American Revolutions'' (1993), Westview.

References

External links

Faculty page at Southwestern University Department of Political Science

Interview with Eric Selbin on human rights in Latin America in the wake of Operation Condor
by Chilam Balam Films.
Eric Selbin: The Revolution Will Be Televised
from Tallinn Summer School, Tallinn University. {{DEFAULTSORT:Selbin, Eric Living people University of Minnesota alumni Political sociologists Year of birth missing (living people) Revolution theorists