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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... remained repressed , atomized , and passive . Popular activism , if any , went little beyond occasional , albeit angry , protests , with most of them directed by Islamists against the West and Israel , and less against their own ...
... to secular authoritarian regimes in the region , even though their vision of political order remained largely exclusivist and authoritarian . They expressed the voice of the mainly middle - class high THE ART OF PRESENCE 7.
... remained generally corrupt and ineffective . Thus , it is not uncommon to find professional syndi- cates to serve nationalist or Islamist politics - a phenomenon quite distinct from labor unions . Unlike the professional syndicates ...
... remained overwhelmed by the surge of religio - nationalist politics . Yet it is naive to conclude a priori that the future belongs to Islamist politics . The fact is that Islamism itself is undergoing a dramatic shift in its underlying ...
... remained under a strong social control and moral discipline by the Islamic regime . This occurred in a time and place in which the young people enjoyed an enormous constituency , with two - thirds of the total population being under ...
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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 |