globalisation and identity in the Arab states of the Gulf /
First Statement of Responsibility
Paul Dresch and James Piscatori, editors.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
I.B. Tauris,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2005.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
vii, 311 pages ;
Dimensions
24 cm
SERIES
Series Title
LMMES ;
Volume Designation
52
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-299) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction : societies, identities and global issues / Paul Dresch -- Channels of interaction : the role of Gulf-owned media firms in globalisation / Naomi Sakr -- Dialect and national identity : the cultural politics of self-representation in Bahraini Musalsalāt / Clive Holes -- Cultural construction, the Gulf and Arab London / Christa Salamandra -- Transnational connections and national identity : Zanzibari Omanis in Muscat / Madawi Al-Rasheed -- Neither autocracy nor democracy but ethnocracy : citizens, expatriates and the socio-political system in Kuwait / Anh Nga Longva -- Debates on marriage and nationality in the United Arab Emirates / Paul Dresch -- Public order and authority : policing Kuwait / Jill Crystal -- Gender, religious knowledge and education in Oman / Mandana E. Limbert -- Political actors without the franchise : women and politics in Kuwait / Haya al-Mughni, Mary Ann Tétreault -- Managing God's guests : the pilgrimage, Saudi Arabia and the politics of legitimacy / James Piscatori.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Despite their small populations, the Arab states of the Gulf exercise an enormous and global influence. In most academic literature, however they are treated as it their only importance were as counters on a strategic game board, and most literature about them deals in simple models of oil, wealth and power. This book takes a quite different approach. By combining the interests of anthropologists, political scientists and others, it explores how the citizen populations of these states define themselves in a wider context."--Jacket.