Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second EditionStanford University Press, 01/05/2013 - 392 من الصفحات Prior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history. In Life as Politics, Asef Bayat argues that such presumptions fail to recognize the routine, yet important, ways in which ordinary people make meaningful change through everyday actions. First published just months before the Arab Spring swept across the region, this timely and prophetic book sheds light on the ongoing acts of protest, practice, and direct daily action. The second edition includes three new chapters on the Arab Spring and Iran's Green Movement and is fully updated to reflect recent events. At heart, the book remains a study of agency in times of constraint. In addition to ongoing protests, millions of people across the Middle East are effecting transformation through the discovery and creation of new social spaces within which to make their claims heard. This eye-opening book makes an important contribution to global debates over the meaning of social movements and the dynamics of social change. |
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... authoritarian states , their moral authority , and neoliberal econ- omies , these groups discover and generate new spaces within which they can voice their dissent and assert their presence in pursuit of bettering their lives . As my ...
... Authoritarian regimes ranging from Iran , Syria , Egypt , Jordan , and Morocco to the sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf and chiefly Saudi Arabia ( incidentally , most with close ties to the West ) have continued to frustrate demands for ...
... authoritarian rule to do in the meantime ? Given these constraints and the uncertain futures of revolutions , an alter- native view would postulate that change should be instigated by committing states to undertaking sustained social ...
... authoritarian pop- ulist regime ( born of a military coup ) to step down in favor of a national transitional government , paving the way for free elections and democratic governance . The first Palestinian intifada ( 1987–93 ) was one ...
... authoritarian regimes in the region , even though their vision of political order remained largely exclusivist and authoritarian . They expressed the voice of the mainly middle - class high THE ART OF PRESENCE 7.
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Part 1 Social NonMovements | 31 |
Part 2 Street Politics and the Political Street | 151 |
Part 3 Revolutions | 239 |
Notes | 317 |
Index | 369 |