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 15
... actors) among radical trends—tend to favor not Islamist revolutions, but some kind of “post-Islamist refo-lutions,” a type of indigenous political reform marked by a blend of democratic ideals and religious sensibilities. Iran's Green ...
... actors) among radical trends—tend to favor not Islamist revolutions, but some kind of “post-Islamist refo-lutions,” a type of indigenous political reform marked by a blend of democratic ideals and religious sensibilities. Iran's Green ...
الصفحة 17
... actors, from carrying out chores such as banking, taking cars to mechanics, or negotiating with builders. They did not stop jogging in public parks, climbing Mount Everest, or contesting (and winning) in male-dominated car racing ...
... actors, from carrying out chores such as banking, taking cars to mechanics, or negotiating with builders. They did not stop jogging in public parks, climbing Mount Everest, or contesting (and winning) in male-dominated car racing ...
الصفحة 20
... actors directly practice what they claim, despite government sanctions. Thus, theirs is not a politics of protest, but of practice, of redress through direct and disparate actions. Third, unlike social movements, where actors are ...
... actors directly practice what they claim, despite government sanctions. Thus, theirs is not a politics of protest, but of practice, of redress through direct and disparate actions. Third, unlike social movements, where actors are ...
الصفحة 21
... acting on the political margins; rather, they are common practices of everyday life carried out by millions of people who albeit remainfragmented. In other words, the power of nonmovements does not lie in the unity of actors, which may ...
... acting on the political margins; rather, they are common practices of everyday life carried out by millions of people who albeit remainfragmented. In other words, the power of nonmovements does not lie in the unity of actors, which may ...
الصفحة 28
... actors may perceive the state bureaucracy frustrating their collective efforts or may see individual encroachment less costly to make their claims than forging a social movement. At any rate, such encroachments become possible—and this ...
... actors may perceive the state bureaucracy frustrating their collective efforts or may see individual encroachment less costly to make their claims than forging a social movement. At any rate, such encroachments become possible—and this ...
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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