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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الصفحة 2
... authorities and hegemonize their claims. Indeed, many activists and NGOs in the Middle East have already engaged in forging movements to alter the current state of affairs. However, while this may serve as a genuinely endogenous ...
... authorities and hegemonize their claims. Indeed, many activists and NGOs in the Middle East have already engaged in forging movements to alter the current state of affairs. However, while this may serve as a genuinely endogenous ...
الصفحة 4
... on target authorities; a repertoire of performances, including associations, public meetings, media statements, and street marches; and finally, “public representations of the cause's worthiness, unity, numbers, 4 CHAPTER 1.
... on target authorities; a repertoire of performances, including associations, public meetings, media statements, and street marches; and finally, “public representations of the cause's worthiness, unity, numbers, 4 CHAPTER 1.
الصفحة 8
... authorities, to push for gender equality in marriage, family, and the economy, and to assert their social role and ability to act as public players.13 While the earlier forms of women's activism, in the late nineteenth and early ...
... authorities, to push for gender equality in marriage, family, and the economy, and to assert their social role and ability to act as public players.13 While the earlier forms of women's activism, in the late nineteenth and early ...
الصفحة 10
... authorities and the mechanisms of control are undermined by, for instance, a political or an economic crisis, international pressure, or infighting within the ruling elites. For example, the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon resulted from the ...
... authorities and the mechanisms of control are undermined by, for instance, a political or an economic crisis, international pressure, or infighting within the ruling elites. For example, the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon resulted from the ...
الصفحة 12
... authorities to undertake change. But for those urban subjects (such as the unemployed, housewives, and the “informal people”) who structurally lack intuitional power of disruption (such as going on strike), the “street” becomes the ...
... authorities to undertake change. But for those urban subjects (such as the unemployed, housewives, and the “informal people”) who structurally lack intuitional power of disruption (such as going on strike), the “street” becomes the ...
المحتوى
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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 |
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