{"product_id":"life-as-politics-9780804783262","title":"Life as Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn updated and expanded look at how under the shadow of authoritarian rule, ordinary people can make meaningful change through the practices of everyday life in the Middle East.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Asef Bayat has penned a remarkable study. \u003ci\u003eLife as Politics\u003c\/i\u003e should be a mandatory read for any journalist, scholar or politician who has never been to the Middle East.\" -- \u003ci\u003eArab News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLife as Politics\u003c\/i\u003e offers a brilliant alternative perspective on public life by taking seriously the daily lives and the social agency of ordinary people.\" -- \u003ci\u003eMiddle East Book Reads\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"When \u003ci\u003eLife as Politics\u003c\/i\u003e was published..., Asef Bayat's arguments on grassroots dynamism as the harbinger of democratic transformations in the Arab world seemed a utopian hope. Barely a year later, as events of the 2011 Arab Spring continue to unfold, his critical insights on everyday forms and spaces of political activity in the region have become prescient.\" -- \u003ci\u003eContemporary Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eLife as Politics\u003c\/i\u003e Asef Bayat offers up a historically rich, analytically rigorous and conceptually innovative account of Middle East oppositional movements . . . [A] \u003ci\u003etour de force\u003c\/i\u003e that will inspire as well as inform scholarship on Middle East social movements—most importantly by moving beyond a preoccupation with 'exceptionalist' tendencies. Above all, this work establishes Asef Bayat as a virtuoso of the sociological imaginary. Specialist and non-specialist readers alike will find themselves transported to the streets of the Middle East and afforded a first-hand view of social and political activism in the making.\" -- Navid Pourmokhtari * \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Current\u003c\/i\u003e *","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405607477591,"sku":"9780804783262","price":77.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804783262.jpg?v=1730492977","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/life-as-politics-9780804783262","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}