MAKAREMI Chowra, Femme ! Vie ! Liberté ! Échos d’un soulèvement révolutionnaire en Iran, La Découverte, coll. Cahiers libres, Paris, 2023, 352 p.

Abstract Since September 2022, men and women in Iran, many of them young, have been engaged in a process of political conquest and the opening up of new possibilities, a process that takes us back to a precise point: that of the ever-present possibility of uprising. This is the chronicle from the outside of a revolt that has taken hold over time with surprise, daring and uncertainty. This long autumn of insurrection also conjures up other sequences in Iranian history, and is informed by other movements, other memories of struggle and violence. This is a long history of power and resistance, which Chowra Makaremi knows from her family background, and also from her research as an anthropologist attentive to counter-archives and collective emotions.
The author gives the events a depth of field that enables us to identify their multiple geneses, and to grasp the irrefutable revolutionary shift they represent. She builds up an archive in the orange light of street fires, which have become the symbol of a revolt that is experienced as a combustion of anger, a profanation, a contagion.

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