Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second EditionPrior 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 6
Some twenty-five years earlier, a nationalist and secular democratic movement led by Prime Minister Muhammad Mossadegh had established constitutionalism, until it was crushed by a coup engineered by the CIA and ...
Some twenty-five years earlier, a nationalist and secular democratic movement led by Prime Minister Muhammad Mossadegh had established constitutionalism, until it was crushed by a coup engineered by the CIA and ...
الصفحة 7
1.5 million Lebanese from all walks oflife demanding meaningful sovereignty, democracy, and an end to foreign meddling, resulted in the ... and to augment a new postnationalist, secular, and nonsectarian (democratic) politics in Egypt.
1.5 million Lebanese from all walks oflife demanding meaningful sovereignty, democracy, and an end to foreign meddling, resulted in the ... and to augment a new postnationalist, secular, and nonsectarian (democratic) politics in Egypt.
الصفحة 8
Yet the failure of Islamism to herald a democratic and inclusive order has given rise to far-reaching nascent movements, what I have called “postIslamism,” that can reshape the political map of the region if they succeed.
Yet the failure of Islamism to herald a democratic and inclusive order has given rise to far-reaching nascent movements, what I have called “postIslamism,” that can reshape the political map of the region if they succeed.
الصفحة 15
... energy was spent on nationalistic and anti-imperialist concerns at the expense of the struggle for democracy at home. ... a type of indigenous political reform marked by a blend of democratic ideals and religious sensibilities.
... energy was spent on nationalistic and anti-imperialist concerns at the expense of the struggle for democracy at home. ... a type of indigenous political reform marked by a blend of democratic ideals and religious sensibilities.
الصفحة 20
Youth may become agents of democratic change only when they act and think politically; otherwise, their preoccupation with their own narrow youthful claims may bear little impetus for engaging in broader societal concerns.
Youth may become agents of democratic change only when they act and think politically; otherwise, their preoccupation with their own narrow youthful claims may bear little impetus for engaging in broader societal concerns.
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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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