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 15
In the Middle East, the nonmovements have come to represent the mobilization of millions of the subaltern, chiefly the urban poor, Muslim women, and youth. The nonmovement of the urban dispossessed, which I have termed the “quiet ...
In the Middle East, the nonmovements have come to represent the mobilization of millions of the subaltern, chiefly the urban poor, Muslim women, and youth. The nonmovement of the urban dispossessed, which I have termed the “quiet ...
الصفحة 17
... not in political Islam, but in a poor people's “nonmovement”—the type of fluid, flexible, and self-producing strategy that is adopted not only by the urban poor, but also by other subaltern groups, including middle-class women.
... not in political Islam, but in a poor people's “nonmovement”—the type of fluid, flexible, and self-producing strategy that is adopted not only by the urban poor, but also by other subaltern groups, including middle-class women.
الصفحة 21
The practices of big numbers are likely to capture and appropriate spaces of power in society within which the subaltern can cultivate, consolidate, and reproduce their counterpower. Thus, the larger the number of women who assert their ...
The practices of big numbers are likely to capture and appropriate spaces of power in society within which the subaltern can cultivate, consolidate, and reproduce their counterpower. Thus, the larger the number of women who assert their ...
الصفحة 26
The advocacy groups, social movements, or legal activists can productively mediate to turn these subalterns' citizenship de facto into de jure.33 By now it should be clear that the concept of nonmovements is substantially different from ...
The advocacy groups, social movements, or legal activists can productively mediate to turn these subalterns' citizenship de facto into de jure.33 By now it should be clear that the concept of nonmovements is substantially different from ...
الصفحة 27
But are the individual encroachments among these subaltern groups not tantamount to politics of rational choice and individual self-interest? In truth, the nonmovements often espouse rights-based claims, where the gain of each ...
But are the individual encroachments among these subaltern groups not tantamount to politics of rational choice and individual self-interest? In truth, the nonmovements often espouse rights-based claims, where the gain of each ...
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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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