Life as Politics How Ordinary People Change the Middle East 2nd Edition by Asef Bayat 0804783268 9780804783262

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ISBN 10: 0804783268 

ISBN 13: 9780804783262

Author: Asef Bayat

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.

Table of contents:

1. The Art of Presence

Part 1. Social Nonmovements

2. The Quiet Encroachment of the Ordinary

3. The Poor and the Perpetual Pursuit of Life Chances

4. Feminism of Everyday Life

5. Reclaiming Youthfulness

6. The Politics of Fun

Part 2. Street Politics and the Political Street

7. Battlefield Tehran

8. Streets of Revolution

9. Does Radical Islam Have an Urban Ecology?

10. Everyday Cosmopolitanism

11. The “Arab Street”

Part 3. Revolutions

12. Is There a Future for Islamic Revolutions?

13. The Post-Islamist Refo-lutions

14. The Green Revolt

15. The Coming of a Post-Islamist Democracy

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