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  • Revolutionary Life

    The Everyday of the Arab Spring

    by Asef Bayat ...
    From a leading scholar of the Middle East and North Africa comes a new way of thinking about the Arab Spring and the meaning of revolution.From the standpoint of revolutionary politics, the Arab Spring can seem like a wasted effort. In Tunisia, where the wave of protest began, as well as in Egypt and the Gulf, regime change never fully took hold. Yet if the Arab Spring failed to disrupt the ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Revolution without Revolutionaries

    Making Sense of the Arab Spring

    by Asef Bayat ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    The revolutionary wave that swept the Middle East in 2011 was marked by spectacular mobilization, spreading within and between countries with extraordinary speed. Several years on, however, it has caused limited shifts in structures of power, leaving much of the old political and social order intact. In this book, noted author Asef Bayat—whose Life as Politics anticipated the Arab Spring—uncovers ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Life as Politics

    How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second Edition

    by Asef Bayat ...
    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 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 ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Islam and Democracy

    What Is the Real Question?

    by Asef Bayat ...
    Series series ISIM Papers
    Is Islam compatible with democracy? The text examines one of the most frequently-asked and yet misguided questions. Democratic ethos should not and cannot be deduced from some essence of religions supposedly inscribed in the scriptures. Rather, they are the outcome of political struggles that push Islam toward democratic or authoritarian directions. Asef Bayat offers a new approach to examine ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Megacities

    The Politics of Urban Exclusion and Violence in the Global South

    by Robert Gay, Professor Caroline Moser, Janice Perlman, Asef Bayat, Jo Beall, Mariano Aguirre, Owen Crankshaw, Susan Parnell ...
    For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in cities, the result of a rapid process of urbanization that started in the second half of the twentieth century. 'Megacities' around the world are rapidly becoming the scene for deprivation, especially in the global South, and the urban excluded face the brunt of what in many cases seems like low-intensity warfare ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Urban Informality

    Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia

    by Asef Bayat, Ray Bromley, Alan Gilbert, Arif Hasan, Janice E. Perlman, Ahmed M. Soliman, Peter M. Ward, Haim Yakobi, Oren Yiftachel ...
    Series series Transnational Perspectives on Space and Place
    The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the developing world and much of it in informal settlements. This book presents cutting-edge research from various world regions to demonstrate these trends. The contributions reveal that informal housing is no longer the domain of the urban poor; rather it is a significant ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Marginality and Exclusion in Egypt

    by Kamal Fahmi, Moushira Elgeziri, Asef Bayat, Dalia Wahdan, Rabab El Mahdi, Heba Hagrass, Ali Kadri, Saker El Nour, Reem Saad ...
    What does it mean to be marginalized? Is it a passive condition that the disadvantaged simply have to endure? Or is it a manufactured label, reproduced and by its nature transitory?In the wake of the new uprising in Egypt, this insightful collection explores issues of power, politics and inequality in Egypt and the Middle East. It argues that the notion of marginality tends to mask the true power ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Global Middle East

    Into the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Asef Bayat ...
    Series Book 3 - The Global Square
    Localities, countries, and regions develop through complex interactions with others. This striking volume highlights global interconnectedness seen through the prism of the Middle East, both “global-in” and “global-out.” It delves into the region’s scientific, artistic, economic, political, religious, and intellectual formations and traces how they have taken shape through a dynamic set of ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks

    Updated Edition

    by Jenny White, Jenny White ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a model for other Muslim countries in the wake of the Arab Spring. In this book, Jenny White reveals how Turkish national identity and the meanings of Islam and secularism have undergone radical changes in today's Turkey, and asks whether the Turkish ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Talking to Arab Youth

    Revolution and Counterrevolution in Egypt and Tunisia

    by Nur Laiq ...
    A new IPI book maps the civic and political activism of youth in postrevolutionary Egypt and Tunisia. Who are the youth activists of Egypt and Tunisia? What are their ideas, and what types of action are they taking? As key protagonists of revolution in 2011, what capacity do they now have to sustain their political and civic engagement over the long term? The book examines the competing narratives ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring

    Rethinking Democratization

    Edited by Larbi Sadiki ...
    The self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia in December 2010 heralded the arrival of the ‘Arab Spring,’ a startling, yet not unprecedented, era of profound social and political upheaval.The meme of the Arab Spring is characterised by bottom-up change, or the lack thereof, and its effects are still unfurling today. The Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring seeks to provide a departure point ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Syrian Revolution

    Between the Politics of Life and the Geopolitics of Death

    by Yasser Munif ...
    Understanding the Syrian revolution is unthinkable without an in-depth analysis from below. Paying attention to the complex activities of the grassroots resistance, this book demands we rethink the revolution.Having lived in Syria for over fifteen years, Yasser Munif is expert in exploring the micropolitics of revolutionary forces. He uncovers how cities are managed, how precious food is ... Read more

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