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 ix
... actors, and in ongoing everyday struggles that all merged into these revolutionary moments. A new Middle East may now be on the horizon, a Middle East informed not only by the actions of the elites, military men, or foreign intrigues ...
... actors, and in ongoing everyday struggles that all merged into these revolutionary moments. A new Middle East may now be on the horizon, a Middle East informed not only by the actions of the elites, military men, or foreign intrigues ...
الصفحة x
... actors, carried out in the main squares, backstreets, courthouses, and communities. As the reception of the first edition coincided with the raging Arab upris» a ings, many commentators described the book as “prophetic, prescient,” and ...
... actors, carried out in the main squares, backstreets, courthouses, and communities. As the reception of the first edition coincided with the raging Arab upris» a ings, many commentators described the book as “prophetic, prescient,” and ...
الصفحة xi
... actors, can and often do imagine revolutions—we talk about, discuss, and even envisage the possibility of them happening or not happening, or the form they may or may not take. On this score, I have proposed that the Iranian experience ...
... actors, can and often do imagine revolutions—we talk about, discuss, and even envisage the possibility of them happening or not happening, or the form they may or may not take. On this score, I have proposed that the Iranian experience ...
الصفحة 5
... actors in the non-Western politically closed and technologically limited settings?9 In contrast to the “exceptionalist” tendency, there are those often “local” scholars in the Middle East who tend uncritically to deploy conventional ...
... actors in the non-Western politically closed and technologically limited settings?9 In contrast to the “exceptionalist” tendency, there are those often “local” scholars in the Middle East who tend uncritically to deploy conventional ...
الصفحة 11
... actors: Iuly 23, 2008. Under the scorching sun on a beach in Alexandria, Egypt, a few dozen political activists snap digital pictures and chatter nervously. Many of them wear matching white T-shirts emblazoned with the image ofa fist ...
... actors: Iuly 23, 2008. Under the scorching sun on a beach in Alexandria, Egypt, a few dozen political activists snap digital pictures and chatter nervously. Many of them wear matching white T-shirts emblazoned with the image ofa fist ...
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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