Life as politics
Subtitle: how ordinary people change the Middle East
By: Asef Bayat.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780804769235; 9780804769242
Subjects: Social movements -- Middle East; Social change -- Middle East; Political participation -- Middle East; Middle East -- Foreign relations -- 1979-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the art of presence; title: Transforming the Arab Middle East : dissecting a manifesto; title: The quiet encroachment of the ordinary; title: The poor and the pursuit of life-chance; title: Everyday life and gender struggles; title: Reclaiming youthfulness; title: The politics of fun; title: A street named "revolution"; title: Does radical Islamism have an urban ecology?; title: Everyday cosmopolitanism; title: The "Arab street"; title: Is there a future for Islamic revolutions?; title: Post-Islamist trajectory.