Revolutionary Life - The Everyday of the Arab Spring

The Arab Spring may not have achieved regime change, but the uprising did foster meaningful reforms. Asef Bayat shows how waves of protest transformed ordinary life in farms and factories, souks and schools. In Egypt and Tunisia, women, workers, poor people, and the queer community can credit the Arab Spring with steps toward equality and freedom.

About the author

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.

Summary

The Arab Spring may not have achieved regime change, but the uprising did foster meaningful reforms. Asef Bayat shows how waves of protest transformed ordinary life in farms and factories, souks and schools. In Egypt and Tunisia, women, workers, poor people, and the queer community can credit the Arab Spring with steps toward equality and freedom.

Product details

• Authors: Asef Bayat, Bayat Asef
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9780674987890
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98789-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Social Theory, HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Africa / North, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Middle Eastern history, Regional / International studies, African History, Urban communities, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State