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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... significant place in the social dynamics of these societies, but not in the way that has been wished, perceived, or presented by the mainstream narratives. In truth, Islam is not only a mobilizing force deployed to push for change but ...
... significant place in the social dynamics of these societies, but not in the way that has been wished, perceived, or presented by the mainstream narratives. In truth, Islam is not only a mobilizing force deployed to push for change but ...
الصفحة x
... significantly, perhaps, the book shows that the discontented subaltern groups—the poor, the youths, women, and the politically marginalized—do not sit around passively obeying the diktats of their police states, nor did they tie their ...
... significantly, perhaps, the book shows that the discontented subaltern groups—the poor, the youths, women, and the politically marginalized—do not sit around passively obeying the diktats of their police states, nor did they tie their ...
الصفحة 3
... significant manifesto for change in the Arab Middle East, was inclined to seek a “realistic solution” of a “westernsupported project of gradual and moderate reform aiming at liberalization.”4 Still, the perception that the Middle East ...
... significant manifesto for change in the Arab Middle East, was inclined to seek a “realistic solution” of a “westernsupported project of gradual and moderate reform aiming at liberalization.”4 Still, the perception that the Middle East ...
الصفحة 5
... significant locus of struggle for (urban) citizenship and transformation in urban configuration. Scant attention is given to how the urban disenfranchised, through their quiet and unassuming daily struggles, refigure new life and ...
... significant locus of struggle for (urban) citizenship and transformation in urban configuration. Scant attention is given to how the urban disenfranchised, through their quiet and unassuming daily struggles, refigure new life and ...
الصفحة 9
... significant women's claim. If, historically, women used charity associations to assert their public role and other gender claims, in recent years, the professional middle classes (teachers, lawyers, pharmacists, engineers, and doctors) ...
... significant women's claim. If, historically, women used charity associations to assert their public role and other gender claims, in recent years, the professional middle classes (teachers, lawyers, pharmacists, engineers, and doctors) ...
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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