Revolution without revolutionaries : making sense of the Arab Spring / Asef Bayat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bayat, Asef, author.

Series:

Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arab Spring, 2010-.

Revolutions--Arab countries.

Revolutions.

Politics and government.

Arab countries--Politics and government--21st century.

Arab countries.

Physical Description:

xiv, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]

Summary:

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 why this occurred, and what made these uprisings so distinct from those that came before. This is both a history of the Arab Spring and a history of revolution writ broadly. Setting the 2011 uprisings side by side with the revolutions of the 1970s, particularly the Iranian Revolution, Bayat reveals a profound global shift in the nature of protest: as acceptance of neoliberal policy has spread, radical revolutionary impulses have diminished. Protestors call for reform rather than fundamental transformation. By tracing the contours and illuminating the meaning of the 2011 uprisings, Bayat gives us the book needed to explain and understand our post-Arab Spring world.

Contents:

Revolutions of wrong times

Marx in the Islamic revolution

Revolution in the everyday

Not a theology of liberation

Cities of dissent

Square and counter-square

The spring of surprise

Half revolution, no revolution

Radical impulses of the social

The agony of transition

Revolution and hope.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bayat, Asef. Revolution without revolutionaries.

ISBN:

9780804799027

0804799024

9781503602588

1503602583

OCLC:

966901537