Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Alice Wilson
| Dates: | 10 February 2020 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Speaker: | Dr Alice Wilson |
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Social Anthropology Seminar
Monday, 10th of February 2020
Dr Alice Wilson
University of Sussex
Unofficial Commemoration Of Silenced Revolution In Dhufar, Oman
Studies of commemoration have focused on contexts where governing authorities orchestrate commemoration, or tolerate new forms of commemoration in the wake of political aperture. When authoritarian government forbids official mention of a contentious past, what possibilities exist for those invested in that past to improvise unofficial forms of commemoration? In Oman, official histories silenced the defeated revolutionary liberation movement that was active in Dhufar, Oman, 1965-1975. Nevertheless, in the post-war period ex-revolutionaries who returned to Oman, as well as other Omanis, attended funerals and other commemorative social occasions for ex-revolutionaries. These acts of unofficial commemoration transmitted knowledge of the silenced revolution to younger generations, and contributed to an afterlife of lasting social legacies of revolution. Such unofficial commemoration under authoritarianism prompts reconsideration of the nature of commemoration as public, and its relationship to modes of political governance.
Second Floor Boardroom 2.016 / 017
Arthur Lewis Building
Time 4:15 to 6:00pm
(Tea and coffee available outside the room from 4:00pm)
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Speaker
Dr Alice Wilson
Role: Speaker
Organisation: University of Sussex
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Arthur Lewis Building
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