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Revolutionary Life - The Everyday of the Arab Spring (Hardcover)
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Revolutionary Life - The Everyday of the Arab Spring (Hardcover)
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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.
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