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 10
... women, and members of labor, civil, and cultural organizations—were arrested and faced court charges or were dismissed from their positions.19 Dozens of dailies and weeklies, and hundreds of NG Os, were shut down. An Amnesty ...
... women, and members of labor, civil, and cultural organizations—were arrested and faced court charges or were dismissed from their positions.19 Dozens of dailies and weeklies, and hundreds of NG Os, were shut down. An Amnesty ...
الصفحة 17
... women. Under the authoritarian patriarchal states, whether secular or religious, women's activism for gender equality is likely to take on the form of nonmovement. Authoritarian regimes and conservative men impose severe restrictions on ...
... women. Under the authoritarian patriarchal states, whether secular or religious, women's activism for gender equality is likely to take on the form of nonmovement. Authoritarian regimes and conservative men impose severe restrictions on ...
الصفحة 18
... women's roles, but they were followed by far-reaching structural legal imperatives. Every claim they made became a stepping-stone for a further claim, generating a cycle of opportunities for demands to enhance gender rights. Thus, women's ...
... women's roles, but they were followed by far-reaching structural legal imperatives. Every claim they made became a stepping-stone for a further claim, generating a cycle of opportunities for demands to enhance gender rights. Thus, women's ...
الصفحة 20
... women and the poor, theirs was not a politics of protest, but of practice, a politics of redress through direct ... women's nonmovements, follow a strong democratizing effect primarily when they challenge the narrow doctrinal foundations ...
... women and the poor, theirs was not a politics of protest, but of practice, a politics of redress through direct ... women's nonmovements, follow a strong democratizing effect primarily when they challenge the narrow doctrinal foundations ...
الصفحة 21
... women striving to go to college, playing sports, working in public, conducting “men's work,” or choosing their own marriage partners; and the young appearing how they like, listening to what they wish, and hanging out where they prefer ...
... women striving to go to college, playing sports, working in public, conducting “men's work,” or choosing their own marriage partners; and the young appearing how they like, listening to what they wish, and hanging out where they prefer ...
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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