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English edition
Oct
2009
288 pp.
Paperback
15X23 cm
$24.95
LE 150.00
ISBN
978 977 416 333 3
For sale only in the Middle East
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Life as Politics
How Ordinary People Change the Middle East
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Asef Bayat
Middle Eastern perspective on the dynamics of social change
In this eye-opening book, Asef Bayat reveals how under the shadow of authoritarian rule, religious moral authorities, and economic elites, ordinary people can make meaningful change through the practices of everyday life.
Though not as visible on the world stage as a mass protest or a full-scale revolution, millions of people across the Middle East are discovering or creating new social spaces within which to make their claims heard, challenging the state’s control and implicitly questioning the established public order through their daily activities. Though not coordinated in their activities, these “non-movements” offer a political response, not of protest but of practice and direct daily action.
“In this pioneering book, Bayat forces us to see things from the ground up.”
—Kamran Asdar Ali, University of Texas at Austin
“Truly one of the most important contributions to the field in the past decade.”
—Ted Swedenburg, University of Arkansas
Asef Bayat is professor of sociology and Middle Eastern studies at Leiden University. He is the author of Street Politics: Poor People’s Movements in Iran (AUC Press, 1998).
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