John Foran (sociologist)
John Foran is an American sociologist with research interests in global climate justice; radical social movements, revolutions, and radical social change; Third World cultural studies; and Latin American and Middle Eastern studies. He has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and is a professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Selected publications
- On the Edges of Development: Cultural Interventions
- Revolution in the Making of the Modern World: Social Identities, Globalization, and Modernity
- Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions
- Feminist Futures: Re-imagining Women, Culture and Development ;
- The Future of Revolutions: Re-thinking Radical Change in the Age of Globalization ;
- Theorizing Revolutions ;
- Fragile Resistance: Social Transformation in Iran From 1500 to the Revolution.