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 12
... protestors who march in the streets, all challenge the state prerogatives and thus may encounter reprisal. Street politics assumes more relevance, particularly in the neoliberal cities, those shaped by the logic of the market. Strolling ...
... protestors who march in the streets, all challenge the state prerogatives and thus may encounter reprisal. Street politics assumes more relevance, particularly in the neoliberal cities, those shaped by the logic of the market. Strolling ...
الصفحة 13
... protest beyond their immediate circles to include the unknown, the strangers. Here streets serve as a medium through which strangers or casual passersby are able to establish latent communication with one another by recognizing their ...
... protest beyond their immediate circles to include the unknown, the strangers. Here streets serve as a medium through which strangers or casual passersby are able to establish latent communication with one another by recognizing their ...
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... protests, mobilizing ordinary women, acquiring funding and resources, or establishing links with international solidarity groups. In the Iran of early 2007, for instance, women activists who initiated a “million-signature campaign”—to ...
... protests, mobilizing ordinary women, acquiring funding and resources, or establishing links with international solidarity groups. In the Iran of early 2007, for instance, women activists who initiated a “million-signature campaign”—to ...
الصفحة 19
... protest actions. As in many parts of the Middle East, the young in general remained dispersed, atomized, and divided, with their organized activism limited to a number of youth NGOs and publications. Youths instead forged collective ...
... protest actions. As in many parts of the Middle East, the young in general remained dispersed, atomized, and divided, with their organized activism limited to a number of youth NGOs and publications. Youths instead forged collective ...
الصفحة 20
... protest, but of practice, a politics of redress through direct action. While the battle over “fun” brings the globalizing urban youth to the center stage of political struggle against fundamentalist movements and regimes, youth ...
... protest, but of practice, a politics of redress through direct action. While the battle over “fun” brings the globalizing urban youth to the center stage of political struggle against fundamentalist movements and regimes, 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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