"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[...]
Whether Islam is compatible with democracy is an increasingly asked question, but ultimately a misguided one. In this book, Asef Bayat proposes that democratic ideals have less to do with the essence of any religion than with how it is practiced. He offers a new approach to Islam and democracy, outl[...]
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[...]
I Vardagslivets politik undersöker Asef Bayat förutsättningarna och formerna för social och politisk aktivism i Mellanöstern, framför allt i Iran och Egypten. Bayat visar hur social och politisk förändring kommit till stånd genom vanliga människors vardagliga strävan efter ett bättre liv[...]
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 ;[...]