Everyday life and revolution -- The subaltern under autocracies -- The subaltern in the uprisings -- The poor and plebeian -- Mothers, daughters, and the gender paradox -- Children of revolution -- The social world -- Whatever happened to the revolution?
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"In this book, Asef Bayat, a leading scholar of the Middle East and North Africa, presents a new way of thinking about the Arab Spring and the meaning of revolution. Blending field research, on-the-ground interviews, and social theory, Bayat shows how the practice of everyday life in Egypt and Tunisia was fundamentally altered by revolutionary activity"--