Life As Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East - Brossura

Bayat, Asef

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ISBN 10: 0804783268 ISBN 13: 9780804783262

Casa editrice: Stanford Univ Pr, 2013

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Asef Bayat is the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies and Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn (Stanford, 2007).

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Book by Bayat Asef

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Stanford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0804783268
• ISBN 13: 9780804783262
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 374