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Kevan HarrisTopics of Interest:
Revolutions, social policy, class formation, historical capitalism, labor movements, intellectual history Countries/Regions of Interest: Iran, Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq, Gulf states, Central Asia |
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List of Publications Books: 2019. The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century: A Global View, edited by Jan Breman, Kevan Harris, Ching Kwan Lee, and Marcel van der Linden. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. Read the entire book at UC Luminos Open Access 2017. A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. (Read the introduction / first chapter) Selected Publications: 2019. “Iran’s Commanding Heights: Privatization and Conglomerate Ownership in the Islamic Republic.” Pp. 363-399 in Crony Capitalism in the Middle East: Business and Politics from Liberalization to the Arab Spring, edited by Ishac Diwan, Adeel Malik, and Izak Atiyas. Oxford: Oxford University Press. PDF 2019. “Pen to the Tiller: Land Reform and Social Mobility Across the 1979 Iranian Revolution,” with Zep Kalb. Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 19, No. 3: 465-486. PDF 2018. "Divergent Histories and Converging Inequalities in the Middle East and Latin America." Middle East Report 284/285: 18-23. PDF 2016. "Making and Unmaking of the Greater Middle East." New Left Review 101: 5-34. PDF (translated into Spanish) 2016. “All the Sepah’s Men: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in Theory and Practice.” Pp. 97-118 in Businessmen in Arms: How the Military and Other Armed Groups Profit in the MENA Region, edited by Elke Grawert and Zeinab Abul-Magd. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. PDF 2016. "Social Welfare Policies and the Dynamics of Elite and Popular Contention." Pp. 70-100 in Power and Change in Iran: Politics of Contention and Conciliation, edited by Daniel Brumberg and Farideh Farhi. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. PDF 2015. “A Hidden Counter-Movement? Precarity, Politics, and Social Protection Before and Beyond the Neoliberal Era,” with Ben Scully. Theory & Society, Vol. 44, No. 5: 415-444. PDF 2015. “The Breakaway Boss: Semiperipheral Innovations and the Rise of Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad.” Journal of World-Systems Research, special issue edited by Kevan Harris and Brendan McQuade, Vol. 21, No. 2: 417-447. PDF Shorter pieces and reviews: “Unpacking the Welfare-Politics Nexus in the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Project on Middle East Political Science, Briefing 28 (2017): 26-30. "Class and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran." Middle East Report, No. 277 (2016): 2-5 (translated into Turkish). PDF Review of Militarizing the Nation: The Army, Business, and Revolution in Egypt, by Zeinab Abul-Magd. American Historical Review, Vol. 123, No. 4 (2018): 1436-1437. PDF Review of Making Morocco: Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity, by Jonathan Wyrtzen. American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 124, No. 1 (2018): 257-259. PDF Review of Middle East Studies for the New Millennium: Infrastructures of Knowledge, edited by Seteney Shami and Cynthia Miller-Idriss. Contemporary Sociology, Vol 47, No 3 (2018): 360-362. PDF Review of Days of Revolution: Political Unrest in an Iranian Village, by Mary Hegland. Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 14, No. 4 (2016): 1248-1249. PDF Review of On the Arab Revolts and the Iranian Revolution: Power and Resistance Today, by Arshin Adib-Moghaddam. International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 47, No. 4 (2015): 849-850. PDF |
Kevan Harris is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Los Angeles. He is a member of the editorial board of Middle East Reports (MERIP) and teaches a UCLA seminar on historical and comparative methods in social science. Harris is the co-director of the UCLA Center for Social Theory and Comparative History. |
