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 x
... first edition of Life as Politics was published in 2010, a year before the uprisings began. In the preface to that edition, I stated that the central theme of the book was agency and change in the Muslim Middle East. More specifically ...
... first edition of Life as Politics was published in 2010, a year before the uprisings began. In the preface to that edition, I stated that the central theme of the book was agency and change in the Muslim Middle East. More specifically ...
الصفحة xi
... first and last Islamic Revolution of our time, and that the historical conditions in the region were conducive for what might be termed “post-Islamist refo-lutions,” a mix of reformist and revolutionary trajectories. The current ...
... first and last Islamic Revolution of our time, and that the historical conditions in the region were conducive for what might be termed “post-Islamist refo-lutions,” a mix of reformist and revolutionary trajectories. The current ...
الصفحة 6
... first Palestinian intifada (1987-93) was one of the most grassroots-based mobilizations in the Middle East of the past century. Triggered by a fatal accident caused by an Israeli truck driver, and against the backdrop of years of ...
... first Palestinian intifada (1987-93) was one of the most grassroots-based mobilizations in the Middle East of the past century. Triggered by a fatal accident caused by an Israeli truck driver, and against the backdrop of years of ...
الصفحة 8
... first in the Islamist Iran of the late 19905 (and expressed in Mohammad Khatami's 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 ...
... first in the Islamist Iran of the late 19905 (and expressed in Mohammad Khatami's 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 ...
الصفحة 19
... first, on the degree of social control imposed on them by the moral and political authorities and, second, on the degree of social cohesion among the young. Thus, in postrevolutionary Iran the young people forged a remarkable ...
... first, on the degree of social control imposed on them by the moral and political authorities and, second, on the degree of social cohesion among the young. Thus, in postrevolutionary Iran the young people forged a remarkable ...
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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