Life As Politics How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second Edition

Name: Life As Politics How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second Edition
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ISBN: 9780804783279

ISBN-10: 0804783276

ISBN-13: 9780804783279

Edition: 2nd 2013

Authors: Asef Bayat

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Prior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history. InLife 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…

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List price: $28.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 5/8/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 390
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.144

Asef Bayat is associate professor of sociology at The American University in Cairo.



Preface


Acknowledgments



The Art of Presence



Social Nonmovements



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



Street Politics and the Political Street



Battlefield Tehran



Streets of Revolution



Does Radical Islam Have an Urban Ecology?



Everyday Cosmopolitanism



The "Arab Street"



Revolutions



Is There a Future for Islamic Revolutions?



The Post-Islamist Refo-lutions



The Green Revolt



The Coming of a Post-Islamist Democracy


Notes


Index