عنوان

Spatial Transformations and the Emergence of 'the National': Infrastructures and the Formation of the United Arab Emirates, 1950-1980

Number

TL49513

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Spatial Transformations and the Emergence of 'the National': Infrastructures and the Formation of the United Arab Emirates, 1950-1980

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Matthew MacLean

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Keshavarzian, Arang

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

New York University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

410

Text of Note

Committee members: Jones, Toby C.; Lockman, Zachary; Ludden, David; Pursley, Sara

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-12790-4

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and History

Body granting the degree

New York University

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

This dissertation explores the emergence of "the national" as a spatial category in the context of three major transformations in the mid- to late twentieth century United Arab Emirates (UAE) - first, increasing integration of the lower Gulf region into circuits of capitalism as a result of oil production; second, the intensification of relationships with the Arab Middle East and restructuring of Gulf-Indian Ocean connections in an era of decolonization; and third, the decline of a highly decentralized mid-20 ^th century political economy in which exchange was governed by communal and moral relations and its replacement by a more capitalist mode of economic life in the course of the 1960s and 1970s. A focus on Ras al-Khaimah, normally considered a peripheral location, highlights the contestations, spatial inequalities, and oppositional politics that characterized the development process in the Trucial States and early UAE.

Middle Eastern history; Middle Eastern Studies

Subject Term

Social sciences;Development;Infrastructure;Nationalism;Spatial history;State formation;United arab emirates

Khalifeh Soltani, Ebrahim

Keshavarzian, Arang

Subdivision

Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and History

New York University

Call Number

1941431480; 10260060

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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