@article{349955,
      recid = {349955},
      author = {Bayat, Asef.},
      title = {Life as politics how ordinary people change the Middle  East / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Stanford University Press,},
      address = {Stanford, Calif. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xi, 304 p .)},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {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 moral authorities, and  economic elites, ordinary people can make meaningful change  through the practices of everyday life. Though not as  visible on the world-stage as a mass protest or a  full-scale revolution, millions of people across the Middle  East are discovering or creating new social spaces within  which to make their claims heard. The street vendor who  sets up his business in the main square, squatters who take  over public parks, Muslim youth who frequent public  hangouts in blue jeans, and protestors who march in the  streets, poor housewives who hang their wash in the  alleyways, and educated women who pursue careers doing  "men's work" - all these people challenge the state's  control and implicity question the established public order  through their daily activities. Though not coordinated in  their activities, these "non-movements" offer a political  response, not of protest but of practice and direct daily  action.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/349955},
}