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Life as Politics
by
Asef Bayat
In the popular imagination, the Muslim Middle East is frozen in its own traditions and history—a land of mosques and minarets, veiled women, despotic regimes, and desert sand. But this assumption fails to recognize that social and political change comes in many guises. In this eye-opening book, Asef Bayat reveals how under the shadow of the authoritarian rule, religious mo...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
October 21st 2009
by Stanford University Press
(first published 2009)
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I reviewed this book for the Fall 2010 issue of The Review of Faith & International Affairs -- my first real book review! An excerpt:
"The author argues for a hopeful vision of change in the Middle East, one that recognizes the role of social nonmovements in effecting change under authoritarian regimes—change that would not be possible using traditional activism and/or revolutionary tactics. Nonmovements effect change through action instead of ideology; practice in place of prote...more
"The author argues for a hopeful vision of change in the Middle East, one that recognizes the role of social nonmovements in effecting change under authoritarian regimes—change that would not be possible using traditional activism and/or revolutionary tactics. Nonmovements effect change through action instead of ideology; practice in place of prote...more
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I give this a 3 and a half only because I read it after I read "Making Islam Democratic" by the same author, and whole parts of this are directly taken from that work, so it became repetitive. If I hadn't read that other one first, the rating would be more like a 4 or 4.5.
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(Ph.D. University of Kent 1984) is Professor of Sociology and Middle Eastern studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was Professor of Sociology and Middle Eastern studies and held the Chair of Society and Culture of the Modern Middle East at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He was the Academic Director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (...more
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