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 23
... collective action is a function of shared interests and identities within a single group, especially when confronted by a common threat, in a multitude, it is not clear precisely how the singular components are to come and act together ...
... collective action is a function of shared interests and identities within a single group, especially when confronted by a common threat, in a multitude, it is not clear precisely how the singular components are to come and act together ...
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... collective action is a common threat. In other words, while making gains in nonmovements takes place individually through direct practices, the defense of gains often takes place collectively, when a common threat turns the subjects ...
... collective action is a common threat. In other words, while making gains in nonmovements takes place individually through direct practices, the defense of gains often takes place collectively, when a common threat turns the subjects ...
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... collective politics when opportunity for organized, sustained, and institutional activism becomes available—for instance, when states/regimes gripped in infighting, crisis, international pressure, or wars become weaker; or when a more ...
... collective politics when opportunity for organized, sustained, and institutional activism becomes available—for instance, when states/regimes gripped in infighting, crisis, international pressure, or wars become weaker; or when a more ...
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... collective) nature of the practices. But they depart in that the nonmovements do get involved in collective resistance when their gains are threatened; they may even turn into organized social movements in opportune political climates ...
... collective) nature of the practices. But they depart in that the nonmovements do get involved in collective resistance when their gains are threatened; they may even turn into organized social movements in opportune political climates ...
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... collective efforts or may see individual encroachment less costly to make their claims than forging a social movement. At any rate, such encroachments become possible—and this is the third point—because these regimes, despite their ...
... collective efforts or may see individual encroachment less costly to make their claims than forging a social movement. At any rate, such encroachments become possible—and this is the third point—because these regimes, despite their ...
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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