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ToolsAinsworth, Rachel and Hoyer, Daniel (2025) Revolution in an age of polycrisis. Global Sustainability, 8. ISSN 2059-4798
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Abstract
Non-technical summary This study combines revolutionary theory with emerging polycrisis discourses to show how various international and national factors and events can become intertwined, creating polycrisis events that can lead to revolutionary moments. Revolutionary moments can further contribute to stresses that cause polycrisis or systemic dysfunction elsewhere, due to our entanglement of global systems. Through the help of two case studies, the Young Turk Revolution and the Arab Spring, this study highlights how revolutions emerge and how they can unfold in the future. Technical summary Revolutions - the overthrow or unseating of governmental forces through mass mobilization - have played a crucial role in major societal transformations throughout history (Lawson, 2019, Anatomies of revolution; Goldstone, 2014, Revolutions: A very short introduction). One component of revolutionary theory, past and present, are the ways different factors and forces interact to create revolutionary moments, specifically how international/transnational and internal societal events interconnect to generate revolutionary situations, trajectories, and outcomes. Revolutionary theorist George Lawson (2019) notes that global networks are intermeshed in that they can produce multiple, complex stressors and triggers that cause revolution in what he terms an 'inter-social approach'. Building on these insights, we argue here through the case studies of the Young Turk Revolution and Arab Spring that the conceptualization of polycrisis as a causal entanglement of crises in multiple global systems provides a critical lens to understand revolutions. Social media summary In an age of polycrisis, risk of revolution increases. Explore how revolutions form and learn their future paths.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | governance,policies,politics,global and planetary change,management, monitoring, policy and law ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300/2306 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of History |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Apr 2025 13:30 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Apr 2025 13:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/99131 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/sus.2025.16 |
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