Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East
Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East
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生活即政治：普通人如何改变中东
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10.5117/9789053569115
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2009
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A. Bayat
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A. Bayat
在2011年之前，大众的想象认为穆斯林中东是不变的，不会改变的，冻结在自己的传统和历史中。在《作为政治的生活》一书中，阿瑟夫·巴亚特认为，这种假设未能认识到普通人通过日常行动做出有意义改变的常规而又重要的方式。在阿拉伯之春席卷该地区前几个月首次出版，这本及时而具有先见之明的书揭示了正在进行的抗议、实践和直接的日常行动。第二版包括关于阿拉伯之春和伊朗绿色运动的三个新章节，并已全面更新，以反映最近发生的事件。从本质上讲，这本书仍然是一部关于受限制时期的代理的研究。除了持续不断的抗议活动外，中东各地数以百万计的人正在通过发现和创造新的社交空间来实现变革，在这些空间中，他们的主张得到了表达。这本令人大开眼界的书对全球关于社会运动的意义和社会变革的动力的辩论做出了重要贡献。
Prior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history. In Life as Politics, Asef Bayat argues that such presumptions fail to recognise 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. The 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.