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 vii
... Politics of Fun STREET POLITICS AND THE POLITICAL STREET Battlefield Tehran Streets of Revolution Does Radical Islam Have an Urban Ecology? Everyday Cosmopolitanism The “Arab Street” ix xiii 33 56 86 106 129 153 175 188 202 226 PART 3 ...
... Politics of Fun STREET POLITICS AND THE POLITICAL STREET Battlefield Tehran Streets of Revolution Does Radical Islam Have an Urban Ecology? Everyday Cosmopolitanism The “Arab Street” ix xiii 33 56 86 106 129 153 175 188 202 226 PART 3 ...
الصفحة xi
... street corners, courthouses, communities, and in the private realms of taste, personal freedom, and preserving dignity. By engaging such social “nonmovements,” they can take advantage of moments to turn misfortunes into advantage and ...
... street corners, courthouses, communities, and in the private realms of taste, personal freedom, and preserving dignity. By engaging such social “nonmovements,” they can take advantage of moments to turn misfortunes into advantage and ...
الصفحة 7
... street marches, and to augment a new postnationalist, secular, and nonsectarian (democratic) politics in Egypt. It galvanized international support and compelled the Egyptian government to amend the constitution to allow for competitive ...
... street marches, and to augment a new postnationalist, secular, and nonsectarian (democratic) politics in Egypt. It galvanized international support and compelled the Egyptian government to amend the constitution to allow for competitive ...
الصفحة 10
... street protests.16 Thus, the Economic Reform and Structural Adjustment Program (ERSAP) has, since the 1980s, coincided with a number of cost- of-living protests in many cities of the region, protests with little or no religious coloring ...
... street protests.16 Thus, the Economic Reform and Structural Adjustment Program (ERSAP) has, since the 1980s, coincided with a number of cost- of-living protests in many cities of the region, protests with little or no religious coloring ...
الصفحة 11
... street, a group of security agents jump out of nowhere. It's a coordinated assault that explodes into a frenzy of punches and shoves. There are screams and grunts as about a dozen kids fall or are knocked to the ground. The other 30 or ...
... street, a group of security agents jump out of nowhere. It's a coordinated assault that explodes into a frenzy of punches and shoves. There are screams and grunts as about a dozen kids fall or are knocked to the ground. The other 30 or ...
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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