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How long does a revolutionary moment last? In this talk, I attend to the permanence of a specific temporal parenthesis in Tunisia’s recent history, the ‘Jasmine Revolution’ of 2010/2011. Reflecting on my conversations and exchanges over the years with a group of young men from a working-class suburb of Tunis who took to the streets during the days of revolution, I attend to what are described as permanent bodily traces of the revolution – physical signs and ‘switches’ that happened during the revolution, but have outlived it. Attending to the permanence within personal biographies of a historical moment that has ended – for some, even failed – outside of them, I trace how bodily permanence forces us to reimagine what, and where, politics is.
Dr Alice Elliot works in North Africa and Europe on the social and intimate dimensions of migration, economic crises, and political revolutions. She works in Morocco, Tunisia, and Italy on themes of gender, kinship, and intimacy, Islam and theological/political imagination, hope and indigenous conceptions of movement. Before joining Goldsmiths, Alice was a lecturer in social anthropology at the university of Bristol, a Leverhulme trust early career fellow at UCL, and a Pegasus Marie Curie Fellow at KU Leuven.