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
... reform did not take us very far in understanding the dynamics of the region. Elite politics has largely been subservient to the collective will of the subaltern groups. Certainly, Islam does occupy a significant place in the social ...
... reform did not take us very far in understanding the dynamics of the region. Elite politics has largely been subservient to the collective will of the subaltern groups. Certainly, Islam does occupy a significant place in the social ...
الصفحة 2
... reforms. Such a nonviolent strategy of reform requires powerful social forces—social movements (of workers, the poor, women, youth, students, and broader democracy movements) or genuine political parties—to challenge political ...
... reforms. Such a nonviolent strategy of reform requires powerful social forces—social movements (of workers, the poor, women, youth, students, and broader democracy movements) or genuine political parties—to challenge political ...
الصفحة 3
... reform aiming at liberalization.”4 Still, the perception that the Middle East remained “unchangeable” had far greater resonance outside the region, notably in the West and among policy circles, the mainstream media, and many think tanks ...
... reform aiming at liberalization.”4 Still, the perception that the Middle East remained “unchangeable” had far greater resonance outside the region, notably in the West and among policy circles, the mainstream media, and many think tanks ...
الصفحة 7
... reform. The Green movement was to become a prelude to the spectacular Arab uprisings of 2011, reminiscent of the ... reforms (see Chapter 13). Movements like the Green wave, Kifaya, and especially the Arab revolutions emerged against the ...
... reform. The Green movement was to become a prelude to the spectacular Arab uprisings of 2011, reminiscent of the ... reforms (see Chapter 13). Movements like the Green wave, Kifaya, and especially the Arab revolutions emerged against the ...
الصفحة 8
... reform government of 1997-2005), post-Islamism has gained expression in a number of political movements and parties in the Muslim world, including Egypt's Al-Wasat, the Moroccan Iustice and Development Party, the ruling Turkish Iustice ...
... reform government of 1997-2005), post-Islamism has gained expression in a number of political movements and parties in the Muslim world, including Egypt's Al-Wasat, the Moroccan Iustice and Development Party, the ruling Turkish Iustice ...
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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