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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... conflicts, generating social groups with demands, desires, and political subjectivities that the dictatorial regimes were unable to tackle. More significantly, perhaps, the book shows that the discontented subaltern groups—the poor, the ...
... conflicts, generating social groups with demands, desires, and political subjectivities that the dictatorial regimes were unable to tackle. More significantly, perhaps, the book shows that the discontented subaltern groups—the poor, the ...
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... conflicts, and the attendant implications, between an individual or a collective populace and the authorities, which ... conflict originates from the active use of public space by subjects who, in the modern states, are allowed to use it ...
... conflicts, and the attendant implications, between an individual or a collective populace and the authorities, which ... conflict originates from the active use of public space by subjects who, in the modern states, are allowed to use it ...
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... conflict between authorities and deinstitutionalized or informal groups over the control of public space and order ... conflicts and their resolution. Cities inescapably leave their spatial imprints on the nature of social struggles and ...
... conflict between authorities and deinstitutionalized or informal groups over the control of public space and order ... conflicts and their resolution. Cities inescapably leave their spatial imprints on the nature of social struggles and ...
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... conflicts, social struggles, and mass insurgencies as the source of cooperation, sharing, and what I like to call “everyday cosmopolitanism”—a place where various members of ethnic, racial, and religious groupings are conditioned to mix ...
... conflicts, social struggles, and mass insurgencies as the source of cooperation, sharing, and what I like to call “everyday cosmopolitanism”—a place where various members of ethnic, racial, and religious groupings are conditioned to mix ...
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... conflicts of interests between them, let alone act in common. If, unlike in a multitude, common identities are essential for agents of nonmovements to act collectively, how are these identities forged among fragmented and atomized ...
... conflicts of interests between them, let alone act in common. If, unlike in a multitude, common identities are essential for agents of nonmovements to act collectively, how are these identities forged among fragmented and atomized ...
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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