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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... democratic movement led by Prime Minister Muham- mad Mossadegh had established constitutionalism , until it was crushed by a coup engineered by the CIA and the British secret service in 1953 , which rein- stated the dictatorship of the ...
... ( democratic ) politics in Egypt . It galvanized international support and compelled the Egyptian government to amend the constitution to allow for competitive presidential elections . More spectacularly , the nonviolent Green wave ...
... democratic state and a religious society . It wants to marry Islam with individual choice and liberties , with democracy and modernity , to generate what some have called an “ alternative modernity . ” Emerging first in the Islamist ...
... democracy leaflets , state security agents swarm across the sand . The cops shout threats to break up what is , by Western standards , a tiny demonstration . The activists disperse from the beach , feeling hot and frustrated ; they didn ...
... democracy at home . Even though street politics in the Arab world assumed some innovations in strategy ... democratic ideals and religious sensi- bilities . Iran's Green movement and the Arab Spring reflect such a political ...
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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 |