Life as politics : how ordinary people change the Middle East /
Asef Bayat.
- Second edition.
- xiv, 374 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-368) and index.
The art of presence -- The quiet encroachment of the ordinary -- The poor and the perpetual pursuit of life chances -- Feminism of everyday life -- Reclaiming youthfulness -- The politics of fun -- Battlefield Tehran -- Streets of revolution -- Does radical Islam have an urban ecology? -- Everyday cosmopolitanism -- The "Arab street" -- Is there a future for Islamic revolutions? -- The post-Islamist refo-lutions -- The green revolt -- The coming of a post-Islamist democracy.