Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second EditionPrior 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 ix
PREFACE IN RETELLING any history of revolutions, the uprisings that spread through the Middle East in 2011 will remain ... The revolutionary moment has shown how a previously excessive focus on Islam to explain political behavior and on ...
PREFACE IN RETELLING any history of revolutions, the uprisings that spread through the Middle East in 2011 will remain ... The revolutionary moment has shown how a previously excessive focus on Islam to explain political behavior and on ...
الصفحة xi
To take account of the Arab revolutions as well as Iran's Green movement of 2009, I have added three new chapters ... I have proposed that the Iranian experience of 1979 may well remain the first and last Islamic Revolution of our time, ...
To take account of the Arab revolutions as well as Iran's Green movement of 2009, I have added three new chapters ... I have proposed that the Iranian experience of 1979 may well remain the first and last Islamic Revolution of our time, ...
الصفحة 1
Small (Marxist and militant Islamist) circles hope for a revolutionary transformation through a sudden upsurge of popular ... If the Iranian Revolution, not so long ago, could sweep aside a long-standing monarchy in less than two years, ...
Small (Marxist and militant Islamist) circles hope for a revolutionary transformation through a sudden upsurge of popular ... If the Iranian Revolution, not so long ago, could sweep aside a long-standing monarchy in less than two years, ...
الصفحة 6
The Islamic Revolution of 1979 galvanized millions of Iranians in a movement that toppled the monarchy and ushered in a new era, not only in Iran, but in many nations of the Muslim world. Some twenty-five years earlier, a nationalist ...
The Islamic Revolution of 1979 galvanized millions of Iranians in a movement that toppled the monarchy and ushered in a new era, not only in Iran, but in many nations of the Muslim world. Some twenty-five years earlier, a nationalist ...
الصفحة 10
For example, the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon resulted from the slaying of Prime Minister Hariri, which offered a political and ... and the detention, without trial, of thousands of others suspected of supporting banned Islamic groups.
For example, the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon resulted from the slaying of Prime Minister Hariri, which offered a political and ... and the detention, without trial, of thousands of others suspected of supporting banned Islamic groups.
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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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