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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... population , in particular women and children , who resorted to non- violent methods of resistance to the occupation , such as civil disobedience , strikes , demonstrations , withholding taxes , and product boycotts . Led mainly by the ...
... population , and , consequently , as fertile ground for the expression of street politics.2 23 But " street politics " has another dimension , in that it is more than just about conflict between authorities and deinstitutionalized or ...
... population being under thirty years of age . But this dissent was not a structured movement with extensive networks of com- munication , organization , and collective protest actions . As in many parts of the Middle East , the young in ...
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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 |