John Foran (born 1955) is an American sociologist with research interests in global climate justice; radical social movements,

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 radical social change;

Third World The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact. The United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Western European nations and their allies represented the " First ...

cultural studies; and

Latin American Latin Americans ( es, Latinoamericanos; pt, Latino-americanos; ) are the citizens of Latin American countries (or people with cultural, ancestral or national origins in Latin America). Latin American countries and their diasporas are multi-eth ...

and Middle Eastern studies. He has a PhD from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

and is a

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of Sociology at the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduates and 2,983 graduate students enrolled in 2021–2022. It is part of the U ...

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).

External links

Homepage at UCSB
(this includes a link to his website on the case method of teaching in global and international studies, as well as a free e-book version of Fragile Resistance) American sociologists Revolution theorists Living people 1955 births {{US-sociologist-stub