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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... strategy of reform requires powerful social forces—social movements (of workers, the poor, women, youth, students, and broader democracy movements) or genuine political parties—to challenge political authorities and hegemonize their ...
... strategy of reform requires powerful social forces—social movements (of workers, the poor, women, youth, students, and broader democracy movements) or genuine political parties—to challenge political authorities and hegemonize their ...
الصفحة 13
... strategic element of everyday life. Thus, not only does city space serve as the center stage of sociopolitical contentions, it at the same time conditions the dynamics and shapes the patterns of conflicts and their resolution. Cities ...
... strategic element of everyday life. Thus, not only does city space serve as the center stage of sociopolitical contentions, it at the same time conditions the dynamics and shapes the patterns of conflicts and their resolution. Cities ...
الصفحة 14
... strategic location (in relation to oil and Israel), and the predominance of Islam give the politics of dissent in the Muslim Middle East particular characteristics. Notwithstanding its characterization as “passive and dead” or “rowdy ...
... strategic location (in relation to oil and Israel), and the predominance of Islam give the politics of dissent in the Muslim Middle East particular characteristics. Notwithstanding its characterization as “passive and dead” or “rowdy ...
الصفحة 15
... strategy, methods, and constituencies, it remained overwhelmed by the surge of religio-nationalist politics. Yet it ... strategies. Thus, while Islam continues to play a major mobilizational role, the conditions for the emergence of ...
... strategy, methods, and constituencies, it remained overwhelmed by the surge of religio-nationalist politics. Yet it ... strategies. Thus, while Islam continues to play a major mobilizational role, the conditions for the emergence of ...
الصفحة 17
... strategy that is adopted not only by the urban poor, but also by other subaltern groups, including middle-class women. Under the authoritarian patriarchal states, whether secular or religious, women's activism for gender equality is ...
... strategy that is adopted not only by the urban poor, but also by other subaltern groups, including middle-class women. Under the authoritarian patriarchal states, whether secular or religious, women's activism for gender equality is ...
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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