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Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East
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Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East Paperback - 2013

by Asef Bayat

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  • Title Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East
  • Author Asef Bayat
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd edition
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 390
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford
  • Date 2013
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0804783276I5N00
  • ISBN 9780804783279 / 0804783276
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Library of Congress subjects Middle East - Politics and government - 1979-, Social change - Middle East
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013005497
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.484

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From the publisher

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.

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About the author

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).