Revolution Without Revolutionaries - Making Sense of the Arab Spring

Asef Bayat is the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies and Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East (Stanford, 2009, 2013) and Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn (Stanford, 2007).

List of contents

1. Revolutions of Wrong Times

2. Marx in the Islamic Revolution

3. Revolution in the Everyday

4. Not a Theology of Liberation

5. Cities of Dissent

6. Square and Counter-Square

7. The Spring of Surprise

8. Half Revolution, No Revolution

9. Radical Impulses of the Social

10. The Agony of Transition

11. Revolution and Hope

About the author

Asef Bayat is the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies and Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East (Stanford, 2009, 2013) and Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn (Stanford, 2007).

Product details

• Authors: Asef Bayat
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9780804799027
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-9902-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures; Stanford Studies in Middle Eas; Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures; Stanford Studies in Middle Eas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous