John Foran (born 1955) is an American sociologist with research interests in global

climate justice Climate justice is a type of environmental justice that focuses on the unequal impacts of climate change on marginalized or otherwise vulnerable populations. Climate justice seeks to achieve an equitable distribution of both the burdens of clima ...

; radical social movements, revolutions, 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, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, the Southern Cone, NATO, Western European countries and oth ...

cultural studies Cultural studies is an academic field that explores the dynamics of contemporary culture (including the politics of popular culture) and its social and historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers investigate how cultural practices rel ...

; and

Latin American Latin Americans (; ) are the citizenship, citizens of Latin American countries (or people with cultural, ancestral or national origins in Latin America). Latin American countries and their Latin American diaspora, diasporas are Metroethnicity, ...

and

Middle Eastern The Middle East (term originally coined in English language) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The term came into widespread usage by the United Kingdom and western Eur ...

studies. He has a

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from the

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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 university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an ...

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