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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... individual acts. powerful dynamic than their individual sum total. Whereas each act, like single drops of rain, singularly makes only individual impact, such acts produce larger spaces of alternative practices and norms when they ...
... individual acts. powerful dynamic than their individual sum total. Whereas each act, like single drops of rain, singularly makes only individual impact, such acts produce larger spaces of alternative practices and norms when they ...
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... individuals, which are established by tacit recognition of their commonalities directly in public spaces or indirectly through mass media.27 Thus, the poor street vendors would recognize their common predicaments by noticing one another ...
... individuals, which are established by tacit recognition of their commonalities directly in public spaces or indirectly through mass media.27 Thus, the poor street vendors would recognize their common predicaments by noticing one another ...
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... individuals in the world of the Web, and in so doing create a tremendous opportunity for building a mix of both passive and active networks. The Egyptian April 6 Youth Movement built on such media to connect some 70,000 people, most of ...
... individuals in the world of the Web, and in so doing create a tremendous opportunity for building a mix of both passive and active networks. The Egyptian April 6 Youth Movement built on such media to connect some 70,000 people, most of ...
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... individuals without a common position.31 individuals with a common position. Figure 1.4. Active network: Individuals with Figure 1.5. Passive network: Atomized similar positions brought together deliberately— individuals with similar ...
... individuals without a common position.31 individuals with a common position. Figure 1.4. Active network: Individuals with Figure 1.5. Passive network: Atomized similar positions brought together deliberately— individuals with similar ...
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... everyday forms of resistance” that Iames Scott describes in his seminal work Weapons of the Weak; their key similarity pertains to the largely individual (rather than collective) nature of the practices. But they depart 26 CHAPTER 1.
... everyday forms of resistance” that Iames Scott describes in his seminal work Weapons of the Weak; their key similarity pertains to the largely individual (rather than collective) nature of the practices. But they depart 26 CHAPTER 1.
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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