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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... subaltern groups . Certainly , Islam does occupy a signifi- cant place in the social dynamics of these societies , but not in the way that has been wished , perceived , or presented by the mainstream narratives . In truth , Islam is not ...
... subaltern , the urban dispossessed , Muslim women , the globalizing youth , and other urban grass roots — could strive to affect change in their societies . In refusing to exit from the social and political stage controlled by ...
... been a hallmark of most Middle Eastern states ? In addition , what is the subaltern to do when the states , even if respecting electoral democracy ( as in Turkey or Indone- sia ) , fall short of providing an effective mechanism 2 CHAPTER 1.
... working, running around, standing, sitting, negotiating, driving, or riding on buses and trams. These represent the relatively new subaltern of the neoliberal city. For the neoliberal city is the “ city inside - 12 CHAPTER 1.
... subaltern , chiefly the urban poor , Muslim women , and youth . The nonmovement of the urban dispossessed , which I have termed the “ quiet encroachment of the ordinary , ” encapsulates the discreet and pro- longed ways in which the ...
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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 |