John Foran
· Professor, SociologyUniversity of California, Santa Barbara · Spanish and Portuguese Studies
Active 1955–2026
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About
John Foran is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, affiliated with the Latin American & Iberian Studies Program. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from UC Berkeley. His academic focus includes social movements and revolutions, and he is involved in teaching and research within these fields. As a faculty member, he contributes to the interdisciplinary study of Latin American and Iberian societies, engaging in scholarly activities that explore social change and collective action in these regions.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Law
- Psychology
- Environmental ethics
- Economics
- Criminology
- History
- Ecology
- Biology
Selected publications
Routledge eBooks · 2020 · 7 citations
1st authorCorrespondingThe revolutions of the twenty-first century will not resemble those of the twentieth, and that could be a very good thing. It is likely that those who will have the most chance of successfully transforming the world in the direction of positive radical social change will do so through the creative elaboration of more horizontalist, less violent kinds of coalitions/networks/alliances as their vehicles for coming to power. This chapter briefly surveys relatively recent or current movements that tr…
2019-04-09 · 6 citations
book1st authorCorrespondingThis book analyzes the processes of social transformation in Iran from the height of the country's power in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries under the Safavid dynasty to the aftermath of the startling revolution that overthrew the Pahlavi monarchy in 1979.
Zed Books Ltd · 2019-01-01 · 4 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingClimate Justice Is Social Justice
Oxford University Press eBooks · 2024 · 3 citations
1st authorCorrespondingAbstract This chapter introduces the climate justice movement within the context of multiple system failures on a global scale. It begins with a look at the historical and social origins of the climate justice movement and then presents an overview of the incredibly diverse and international movement today. It highlights such diverse movement organizations as the youth-led Sunrise and Fridays for Future movements, Extinction Rebellion, 350.org, the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance, and Acció…
Zed Books Ltd · 2019-01-01 · 2 citations
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Frequent coauthors
- 6 shared
Kum‐Kum Bhavnani
- 3 shared
Saïd Amir Arjomand
State University of New York
- 3 shared
Corrie Grosse
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
- 3 shared
Debashish Munshi
University of Waikato
- 3 shared
Jeff Goodwin
New York University
- 3 shared
Priya Kurian
University of Waikato
- 3 shared
Andreja Živković
- 2 shared
Shadi Hamid
Labs
Latin American & Iberian Studies ProgramPI
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