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Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second Edition
Asef Bayat
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Description for Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second Edition
Paperback. An updated and expanded look at how under the shadow of authoritarian rule, ordinary people can make meaningful change through the practices of everyday life in the Middle East. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFSR2; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 532.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
532g
Number of Pages
390
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804783279
SKU
V9780804783279
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About Asef Bayat
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).
Reviews for Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second Edition
In Life as Politics Asef Bayat offers up a historically rich, analytically rigorous and conceptually innovative account of Middle East oppositional movements . . . [A] tour de force that will inspire as well as inform scholarship on Middle East social movements-most importantly by moving beyond a preoccupation with 'exceptionalist' tendencies. Above all, this work establishes Asef Bayat as a ... Read more