Alice Wilson - Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman

The Dhufar Revolution was fought between 1965-1976 in an attempt to depose Oman's British-backed Sultan and advance social ideals of egalitarianism and gender equality. But following counterinsurgency victory, Oman’s government expunged the revolution from sanctioned historical narratives. Alice Wilson considers the “social afterlives” of revolutionary values and networks, as veteran militants have used kinship and daily socializing to reproduce networks of social egalitarianism and commemorate the revolution in unofficial ways. Showing how those typically depicted as coopted can still reproduce counterhegemonic values, Afterlives of Revolution challenges conventional narratives of revolution, counterinsurgency and their aftermaths.
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