{"product_id":"revolution-without-revolutionaries-making-sense-of-the-arab-spring-9781503602588","title":"Revolution Without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe revolutionary wave that swept the Middle East in 2011 was marked by spectacular mobilization, spreading within and between countries with extraordinary speed. Several years on, however, it has caused limited shifts in structures of power, leaving much of the old political and social order intact. In this book, noted author Asef Bayat--whose \u003ci\u003eLife as Politics\u003c\/i\u003e anticipated the Arab Spring--uncovers why this occurred, and what made these uprisings so distinct from those that came before.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevolution without Revolutionaries\u003c\/i\u003e is both a history of the Arab Spring and a history of revolution writ broadly. Setting the 2011 uprisings side by side with the revolutions of the 1970s, particularly the Iranian Revolution, Bayat reveals a profound global shift in the nature of protest: as acceptance of neoliberal policy has spread, radical revolutionary impulses have diminished. Protestors call for reform rather than fundamental transformation. By tracing the contours and illuminating the meaning of the 2011 uprisings, Bayat gives us the book needed to explain and understand our post-Arab Spring world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAsef Bayat\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eLife as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford, 2009, 2013) and \u003ci\u003eMaking Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford, 2007).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50339505275154,"sku":"9781503602588","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2841610b-32c2-4014-a6ab-b66f28cd2f8a.jpg?v=1728006024","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/revolution-without-revolutionaries-making-sense-of-the-arab-spring-9781503602588","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}