{"product_id":"life-as-politics-how-ordinary-people-change-the-middle-east-second-edition-paperback-softback-9780804783279","title":"Life As Politics; How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second Edition (Paperback \/ softback) 9780804783279","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLife As Politics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHow Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second Edition\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAsef Bayat (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780804783279\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 May 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e390 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.553 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eLife as Politics\u003c\/i\u003e Asef Bayat offers up a historically rich, analytically rigorous and conceptually innovative account of Middle East oppositional movements . . . [A] \u003ci\u003etour de force\u003c\/i\u003e 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 virtuoso of the sociological imaginary. Specialist and non-specialist readers alike will find themselves transported to the streets of the Middle East and afforded a first-hand view of social and political activism in the making.\"—Navid Pourmokhtari, \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Current\u003c\/i\u003e \"Asef Bayat has penned a remarkable study. \u003ci\u003eLife as Politics\u003c\/i\u003e should be a mandatory read for any journalist, scholar or politician who has never been to the Middle East.\"—\u003ci\u003eArab News\u003c\/i\u003e \"When \u003ci\u003eLife as Politics\u003c\/i\u003e was published..., Asef Bayat's arguments on grassroots dynamism as the harbinger of democratic transformations in the Arab world seemed a utopian hope. Barely a year later, as events of the 2011 Arab Spring continue to unfold, his critical insights on everyday forms and spaces of political activity in the region have become prescient.\"—\u003ci\u003eContemporary Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eLife as Politics\u003c\/i\u003e offers a brilliant alternative perspective on public life by taking seriously the daily lives and the social agency of ordinary people.\"—\u003ci\u003eMiddle East Book Reads\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history. In \u003ci\u003eLife as Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52521347940632,"sku":"9780804783279","price":17.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/life-as-politics-how-ordinary-people-change-the-middle-east-second-edition-paperback-softback-9780804783279","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}