زندگی به‌عنوان سیاست: چگونه مردم عادی خاورمیانه را تغییر می‌دهند

The popular view in the West deems the Muslim Middle East as socially and politically stagnant. The Art of Presence challenges this view. It shows how, under often authoritarian rule, the ordinary people discover or create new spaces within which they can voice their concerns and assert their presence. The major venues for social and political change are not simply mass protest or revolutions, even though these do happen; they are rather embodied in what Bayat calls 'non-movements', the millions of dispersed poor, women, the young, and other grassroots who act in common. 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. Introduction : The Art Of Presence -- Transforming The Arab Middle East : Dissecting A Manifesto -- Part 1: Social Nonmovements. The Quiet Encroachment Of The Ordinary ; The Poor And The Perpetual Pursuit Of Life Chances ; Feminism Of Everyday Life ; Reclaiming Youthfulness ; The Politics Of Fun -- Part 2: Street Politics And The Political Street. A Street Named Revolution ; Does Radical Islam Have An Urban Ecology? ; Everyday Cosmopolitanism ; The Arab Street ; Is There A Future For Islamic Revolutions? -- Part 3: Prospects. No Silence, No Violence: Post-islamist Trajectory. Asef Bayat. Life as Politics offers a new perspective to understand the intricate nature of social activism and complex dynamics of change in today's Muslim Middle East.