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
... street politics, expressing grievance in public space and engaging in civic campaigns, or resort to the type of “social nonmovements” that interlock activism with the practice of everyday life. STREET POLITICS AND POLITICAL STREET The ...
... street politics, expressing grievance in public space and engaging in civic campaigns, or resort to the type of “social nonmovements” that interlock activism with the practice of everyday life. STREET POLITICS AND POLITICAL STREET The ...
الصفحة 13
... streets) serve as indispensible assets in the economic livelihood and social/cultural reproduction of a vast segment of the urban population, and, consequently, as fertile ground for the expression of street politics.23 But “street politics ...
... streets) serve as indispensible assets in the economic livelihood and social/cultural reproduction of a vast segment of the urban population, and, consequently, as fertile ground for the expression of street politics.23 But “street politics ...
الصفحة 14
... streets. In other words, urban streets not only serve as a physical space where conflicts are shaped and expressed, where collectives are formed, solidarities are extended, and “street politics” are displayed. They also signify a ...
... streets. In other words, urban streets not only serve as a physical space where conflicts are shaped and expressed, where collectives are formed, solidarities are extended, and “street politics” are displayed. They also signify a ...
الصفحة 15
... street politics in the Arab world assumed some innovations in strategy, methods, and constituencies, it remained overwhelmed by the surge of religio-nationalist politics. Yet it is naive to conclude a priori that the future belongs to ...
... street politics in the Arab world assumed some innovations in strategy, methods, and constituencies, it remained overwhelmed by the surge of religio-nationalist politics. Yet it is naive to conclude a priori that the future belongs to ...
الصفحة 27
... political climates, or move back to the more individual encroachments when the cost ... politics of rational choice and individual self-interest? In truth, the ... street businesses. When the authorities fail to recognize gender rights or ...
... political climates, or move back to the more individual encroachments when the cost ... politics of rational choice and individual self-interest? In truth, the ... street businesses. When the authorities fail to recognize gender rights or ...
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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