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Life as politics : how ordinary people change the Middle East

Asef Bayat (Author)
"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"--Provided by publisher
eBook, English, 2013
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Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 2013
1 online resource
9780804786331, 080478633X
843637507
The art of presence
The quiet encroachment of the ordinary
The poor and the perpetual pursuit of life chances
Feminism of everyday life
Reclaiming youthfulness
The politics of fun
Battlefield Tehran
Streets of revolution
Does radical Islam have an urban ecology?
Everyday cosmopolitanism
The "Arab street"
Is there a future for Islamic revolutions?
The post-Islamist refo-lutions
The green revolt
The coming of a post-Islamist democracy
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