Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East
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1. Verfasser: Bayat, Asef (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Palo Alto Stanford University Press 2013
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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. 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
Preface; Acknowledgments; 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 DemocracyNotes; Index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (391 p.)
ISBN:080478633X
9780804786331

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