The Living and Being of the Streets: Fanon and the Arab Uprisings
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/ Anna M. Agathangelou
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The North Africa and Middle East (MENA) insurrections point to the transformative potential of the convergence between massive numbers of unemployed young people and modern communication networks in response to the 2008 global financial crisis and the failed ‘War on Terror’. Yet theorists have wondered about the timing and significance of these revolutions, along with their relationship with social rebellions in other times and places. This work stages a conversation with Frantz Fanon about the spacing of temporality of revolutions, focusing on his understanding of the anti-colonial revolution and the significance of the least sovereign (and potentially most revolutionary) subjects in the decolonization and anti-slavery struggles. I then engage with the MENA revolts and uprisings arguing that they are revolutionary advances toward a socialism that is able to check the snatching of land and slaughtering of others for development