Revolutionary Life : The Everyday of the Arab Spring

作者：AsefBayat

出版社：HarvardUniversityPress

副标题：TheEverydayoftheArabSpring

出版年：2021-11-26

页数：304

定价：GBP25.20

装帧：Hardcover

ISBN：9780674987890

内容简介
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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 structures of governments, the movement was transformative in farms, families, and factories, souks and schools.

Seamlessly blending field research, on-the-ground interviews, and social theory, Asef Bayat shows how the practice of everyday life in Egypt and Tunisia was fundamentally altered by revolutionary activity. Women, young adults, the very poor, and members of the underground queer community can credit the Arab Spring with steps toward equality and freedom. There is also potential for further progress, as women’s rights in particular now occupy a firm place in public discourse, preventing retrenchment and ensuring that marginalized voices remain louder than in prerevolutionary days. In addition, the Arab Spring empowered workers: in Egypt alone, more than 700,000 farmers unionized during the years of protest. Labor activism brought about material improvements for a wide range of ordinary people and fostered new cultural and political norms that the forces of reaction cannot simply wish away.

In Bayat’s telling, the Arab Spring emerges as a paradigmatic case of “refolution”―revolution that engenders reform rather than radical change. Both a detailed study and a moving appeal, Revolutionary Life identifies the social gains that were won through resistance.

作者简介
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Asef Bayat is Professor of Sociology and Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn and Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring.

目录
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Introduction

1. Everyday Life and Revolution

2. The Subaltern under Autocracies

3. The Subaltern in the Uprisings

4. The Poor and Plebeian

5. Mothers, Daughters, and the Gender Paradox

6. Children of Revolution

7. The Social World

8. Whatever Happened to the Revolution?

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

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