Michael Blim

Faculty Fellow

Michael Blim is Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center and the author of Made in Italy: Small-scale Industrialization and Its Consequences as well as Equality and Economy: The Global Challenge. He is currently finishing a ms. tentatively titled “Clear and Present Danger: The Role of the Rich in American Life.” As part of the manuscript preparation, his project consists of an exploration the utility of the concept of “revolution from above” in discussing US worker uprisings in the second half of the 19th Century.

Participating Years

2012–2013

Uprisings: in History, in Process, in the Future

The last year has witnessed an extraordinary flowering of political and social protest across the globe. Each location of struggle, whether the revolutions sometimes called the “Arab Spring” or the vigorous demonstrations of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, provides important lessons in how we understand social change in the current conjuncture.What is the longue durée of such struggle? How do uprisings reconfigure the social? How are they represented and is representation itself an uprising?