Postwar revolutions genuinely occurred across Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Evidence

As Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker (2012) have convincingly shown in relation to histories of the Atlantic, the movement of people spurs forms of interaction and intermixture that often stoke the flames of revolution. In this way, unruly mobilities and unruly (multi)culture are both signs of freedom, where unruliness refers to an ungovernability in relation to the territorialising and exclusionary force of national and colonial state power (see also Scott, 2009). — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 34 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Human mobility across the Atlantic stoked revolutionary intermixture and interaction. — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 34; The late 1970s and early 1980s saw a global wave of revolution

Broader Connections