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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... regimes were unable to tackle. More significantly, perhaps, the book shows that the discontented subaltern groups—the poor, the youths, women, and the politically marginalized—do not sit around passively obeying the diktats of their ...
... regimes were unable to tackle. More significantly, perhaps, the book shows that the discontented subaltern groups—the poor, the youths, women, and the politically marginalized—do not sit around passively obeying the diktats of their ...
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... regimes ranging from Iran, Syria, Egypt, Iordan, and Morocco to the sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf and chiefly Saudi Arabia (incidentally, most with close ties to the West) have continued to frustrate demands for democracy and the rule ...
... regimes ranging from Iran, Syria, Egypt, Iordan, and Morocco to the sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf and chiefly Saudi Arabia (incidentally, most with close ties to the West) have continued to frustrate demands for democracy and the rule ...
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... regime change,” exemplified in, for instance, the occupation of Iraq and the continuous inclination to wage a war against Iran, represents how, in such a perspective, change is to be realized in the region. Consequently, internal ...
... regime change,” exemplified in, for instance, the occupation of Iraq and the continuous inclination to wage a war against Iran, represents how, in such a perspective, change is to be realized in the region. Consequently, internal ...
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... regime (born of a military coup) to step down in favor of a national transitional government, paving the way for free elections and democratic governance. The first Palestinian intifada (1987-93) was one of the most grassroots-based ...
... regime (born of a military coup) to step down in favor of a national transitional government, paving the way for free elections and democratic governance. The first Palestinian intifada (1987-93) was one of the most grassroots-based ...
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... regimes or compelled political reforms (see Chapter 13). Movements like the Green wave, Kifaya, and especially the Arab revolutions emerged against the background of, and indeed as alternatives to, the more formidable Islamist trends in ...
... regimes or compelled political reforms (see Chapter 13). Movements like the Green wave, Kifaya, and especially the Arab revolutions emerged against the background of, and indeed as alternatives to, the more formidable Islamist trends in ...
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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