Bayat, Asef,

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.

9780804783262 (cloth : alk. paper) 0804783268 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780804783279 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0804783276 (pbk. : alk. paper)

99954461723

2013005497


Social movements--Middle East.
Social change--Middle East.
Political participation--Middle East.


Middle East--Politics and government--1979-

HN656.A8 / B378 2013

303.48/40956