Duty to Revolt

Throughout the 19th century, revolutionary movements united intellectuals, artists, dissidents, and significant segments of the population in joint crusades in the name of justice or liberation against empires and aristocratic elites, often across class, religious, race and national lines. Duty to Revolt takes the Greek Revolution as a foundational historical departure point to investigate historical continuities and discontinuities in transnational and commemorative aspects of revolutionary wars.

This edited collection provides an innovative and comprehensive contribution to the study of historical revolutions and their commemoration, as well as contemporary protests and uprisings, and how they are communicated today in everyday networked media.

Duty to Revolt is the first work of its kind to take an interdisciplinary approach across historical time on this subject and bringing together leading and emerging scholars in several fields, merging history and political science with digital media and communication studies.

George Souvlis holds a PhD in History from the European University Institute and currently teaches at the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Ioannina, Greece. He is also a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Sociology at the University of Crete and the co-coordinator of Dissensus and a principal co-investigator of the research project on socio-political transformations and hate rhetoric in Greece.

Athina Karatzogianni is a Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester. Her research has focused on the intersections between digital media theory, resistance networks and global politics, investigating ICT use by social movements, protest, and insurgency groups. Most recently, she was the Principal Investigator for the European Commission Horizon 2020 project: ‘DigiGen: The Impact of Technological Transformations on the Digital Generation’ leading the work on ICT and the transformation of civic participation (2019-2022).