"This is an excellent collection of essays on youth in a number of Muslim majority (and minority) societies in the context of globalization and modernity. A particular strength of this volume is its ability to highlight the multiple and contested roles of religion and personal faith in the fashionin[...]

In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, an active political movement emerged on the streets of Iran's largest cities. Poor people began to construct their own communities on unused urban lands, creating an infrastructure----roads, electricity, running water, garbage collection, and shelters----a[...]

Prior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history. In "Life as Politics," Asef Bayat argues that such presumptions fail to recognize the routine, yet important, ways in which ordinary people make meaningful ch[...]

Det nya Gläntanumret är unikt, det är i själva verket ett nummer av den kapstadsbaserade tidskriften Chimurenga. Glänta 2.10 består uteslutande av översättningar av alla texter samt bildmaterialet i Chimurengas temanummer om tystnad och vägran att tala.

Medarbetare: Asef Bayat ;[...]