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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... Revolutions ? 241 13 The Post - Islamist Refo - lutions 259 14 The Green Revolt 284 15 The Coming of a Post - Islamist Democracy 305 Notes 317 Index 369 PREFACE IN RETELLING any history of revolutions , the uprisings viii CONTENTS.
... the region seem to exhibit a “ refo - lutionary ” character ; one that may both constrain and open opportunities for the future of democracy in the Middle East . ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A VOLUME that has taken about a decade of PREFACE xi.
... democracy and the rule of law , prompting ( religious ) opposition movements that espouse equally undemo- cratic , exclusive , and often violent measures . These conditions have at times caused much fear in the West about the ...
... democracy move- ments ) or genuine political parties — to challenge political authorities and he- gemonize their claims . Indeed , many activists and NGOs in the Middle East have already engaged in forging movements to alter the current ...
... democracy promo- tion industry ” in the West , which pushed for instigating change through out- side powers and did not exclude the use of force.5 " 4 The idea of Middle Eastern exceptionalism is not new . Indeed , for a long time now ...
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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 |