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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... millions of noncollective 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 ...
... millions of noncollective 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 ...
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... 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 ... million Lebanese from all walks oflife demanding meaningful sovereignty, 6 CHAPTER 1.
... 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 ... million Lebanese from all walks oflife demanding meaningful sovereignty, 6 CHAPTER 1.
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How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second Edition Asef Bayat. 1.5 million Lebanese from all walks oflife ... millions of Iranians against the Ahmadinejad's hard-line government (accused of fraud in the presidential elections of ...
How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second Edition Asef Bayat. 1.5 million Lebanese from all walks oflife ... millions of Iranians against the Ahmadinejad's hard-line government (accused of fraud in the presidential elections of ...
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... millions of the subaltern, chiefly the urban poor, Muslim women, and youth. The nonmovement of the urban dispossessed, which I have termed the “quiet encroachment of the ordinary,” encapsulates the discreet and prolonged ways in which ...
... millions of the subaltern, chiefly the urban poor, Muslim women, and youth. The nonmovement of the urban dispossessed, which I have termed the “quiet encroachment of the ordinary,” encapsulates the discreet and prolonged ways in which ...
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... million-signature campaign”—to involve ordinary women nationally against misogynous laws—encountered constant harassment, repression, and detention. Many young activists were beaten up, not only by morals police, but in some cases by ...
... million-signature campaign”—to involve ordinary women nationally against misogynous laws—encountered constant harassment, repression, and detention. Many young activists were beaten up, not only by morals police, but in some cases by ...
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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