Sociology Professor Asef Bayat taks about his recently published book, Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East , where he focuses on the diverse ways in which ordinary people, the subaltern- the urban dispossessed, women, the globalizing youth, and other urban grass roots- strive to affect the contours of change in their societies. Sunday on 1014.4 FM between noon and 1 or streamed on www.esonancefm.com The interview is taken from Voices of the Middle East and North Africa and was first broadcast on KPFA Radio, Berkeley, US.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51