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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... serious challenge to secular authoritarian regimes in the region , even though their vision of political order remained largely exclusivist and authoritarian . They expressed the voice of the mainly middle - class high THE ART OF PRESENCE ...
... 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 Al - Wasat , the Moroccan Justice and ...
... expressed little tolerance toward sustained collective dissent . The Freedom House reported in 2003 that while only five states in the Middle East and North Africa region allowed some limited political rights and civil liberties , the ...
... expression was , by far , worse in Saudi Arabia and Tunisia . The following report about a group of young Egyptians launching a peaceful campaign gives a taste of the severe restrictions against collective actors : July 23 , 2008. Under ...
... expressed primarily in urban settings. Indeed, urban public space continues to serve as the key theater of contentions. When people are deprived of the electoral power to change things, they are likely to resort to their own ...
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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 |