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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... labor unions . Unlike the professional syndicates , the conventional trade unions remain engaged chiefly with economic and social concerns . Despite corporatism and governmental pressures , trade unions in the Middle East have ...
... labor , civil , and cultural organizations - were arrested and faced court charges or were dismissed from their positions.19 Dozens of dailies and weeklies , and hundreds of NGOs , were shut down . An Amnesty International report on ...
... labor ” and standing op- posed to the " empire . " 26 Thus , whereas multitude is assumed to bring together singular and ontologically different social subjects ( men , women , black , white , various ethnicities , etc. ) , nonmovements ...
... labor , informalization , the shrinking of public sectors , and “ NGOization ” —all associated with the neo- liberal restructuring - further curtail the popular capacity for organized ac- tivism in the form of , say , traditional trade ...
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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 |