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 ix
... elites, military men, or foreign intrigues but a region influenced by the ordinary people. Change is no longer an ... elite politics to expound political reform did not take us very far in understanding the dynamics of the region. Elite ...
... elites, military men, or foreign intrigues but a region influenced by the ordinary people. Change is no longer an ... elite politics to expound political reform did not take us very far in understanding the dynamics of the region. Elite ...
الصفحة 3
... elites, military men, or wars and external powers. The George W. Bush administration's doctrine of “regime change,” exemplified in, for instance, the occupation of Iraq and the continuous inclination to wage a war against Iran ...
... elites, military men, or wars and external powers. The George W. Bush administration's doctrine of “regime change,” exemplified in, for instance, the occupation of Iraq and the continuous inclination to wage a war against Iran ...
الصفحة 10
... elites. For example, the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon resulted from the slaying of Prime Minister Hariri, which offered a political and psychological opportunity to forge a broad anti-Syrian movement. Alternatively, an opportunity may ...
... elites. For example, the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon resulted from the slaying of Prime Minister Hariri, which offered a political and psychological opportunity to forge a broad anti-Syrian movement. Alternatively, an opportunity may ...
الصفحة 16
... elites are remarkably similar. Cairo elite lament about the “invasion of fallahin” (peasants) from the dispersed Upper Egyptian countryside, and Istanbul elite warn of the encroachment of the “black Turks,” meaning poor rural migrants ...
... elites are remarkably similar. Cairo elite lament about the “invasion of fallahin” (peasants) from the dispersed Upper Egyptian countryside, and Istanbul elite warn of the encroachment of the “black Turks,” meaning poor rural migrants ...
الصفحة 21
... elite control of urban governance becomes. Second, even though these subjects act individually and separately, the effects of their actions do not of necessity fade away in seclusion. They can join up, generating a more Figure 1.1 ...
... elite control of urban governance becomes. Second, even though these subjects act individually and separately, the effects of their actions do not of necessity fade away in seclusion. They can join up, generating a more Figure 1.1 ...
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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