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Life As Politics

Paperback • 2013

Life As Politics

By Asef. Bayat

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<p>Prior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history. In <i>Life as Politics</i>, 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, ...Show more

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9780804783279

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2013

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Life As Politics

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