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 10
... activism in the nation's history since World War II, with almost no Islamist influence.17 It is clear that contentious collective action has played a key role in the political trajectories of the Middle Eastern nations. These ...
... activism in the nation's history since World War II, with almost no Islamist influence.17 It is clear that contentious collective action has played a key role in the political trajectories of the Middle Eastern nations. These ...
الصفحة 11
... activists snap digital pictures and chatter nervously. Many of them wear matching white T-shirts emblazoned with the image ofa fist raised in solidarity and the words “April 6 Youth” splashed across the back. A few of them get to work ...
... activists snap digital pictures and chatter nervously. Many of them wear matching white T-shirts emblazoned with the image ofa fist raised in solidarity and the words “April 6 Youth” splashed across the back. A few of them get to work ...
الصفحة 12
... activists would venture into such perilous subversive operations, others would find recourse in street politics ... activism with the practice of everyday life. STREET POLITICS AND POLITICAL STREET The contentious politics I have ...
... activists would venture into such perilous subversive operations, others would find recourse in street politics ... activism with the practice of everyday life. STREET POLITICS AND POLITICAL STREET The contentious politics I have ...
الصفحة 17
... activism for gender equality is likely to take on the form of nonmovement. Authoritarian regimes and conservative ... activists who initiated a “million-signature campaign”—to involve ordinary women nationally against misogynous laws ...
... activism for gender equality is likely to take on the form of nonmovement. Authoritarian regimes and conservative ... activists who initiated a “million-signature campaign”—to involve ordinary women nationally against misogynous laws ...
الصفحة 18
... activists (as well as the authorities) were keenly aware of the incremental consequences of such structural ... activism. Very often “youth movements” are erroneously conflated with and mistaken for “student movements” or “youth ...
... activists (as well as the authorities) were keenly aware of the incremental consequences of such structural ... activism. Very often “youth movements” are erroneously conflated with and mistaken for “student movements” or “youth ...
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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