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
... individuals, and by the diverse ways in which the ordinary people—the 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 ...
... individuals, and by the diverse ways in which the ordinary people—the 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 ...
الصفحة xi
... individual struggles into audible and collective defiance. This second edition is fully revised, updated, and extended. To take account of the Arab revolutions as well as Iran's Green movement of 2009, I have added three new chapters ...
... individual struggles into audible and collective defiance. This second edition is fully revised, updated, and extended. To take account of the Arab revolutions as well as Iran's Green movement of 2009, I have added three new chapters ...
الصفحة xiii
... individuals and organizations who welcomed cooperation. Chapter 7, “Battlefield Tehran,” was prepared when I had just joined the Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I have been blessed by a most ...
... individuals and organizations who welcomed cooperation. Chapter 7, “Battlefield Tehran,” was prepared when I had just joined the Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I have been blessed by a most ...
الصفحة 3
... individual rights? It should not, therefore, come as a surprise that until recently growing segments of people, frustrated by the political stalemate, lamented that although most people in the Middle East suffered under the status quo ...
... individual rights? It should not, therefore, come as a surprise that until recently growing segments of people, frustrated by the political stalemate, lamented that although most people in the Middle East suffered under the status quo ...
الصفحة 8
... individual choice and liberties, with democracy and modernity, to generate what some have called an “alternative modernity.” Emerging first in the Islamist Iran of the late 19905 (and expressed in Mohammad Khatami's reform government of ...
... individual choice and liberties, with democracy and modernity, to generate what some have called an “alternative modernity.” Emerging first in the Islamist Iran of the late 19905 (and expressed in Mohammad Khatami's reform government of ...
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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