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Author Jones, Calvert W., author.

Title Bedouins into bourgeois : remaking citizens for globalization / Calvert W. Jones
Published New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Contents Introduction -- Rethinking the making of citizens -- Seeing like a sheikh -- Enlightenment under autocracy -- Symbolism, spectacle, and the shaping of the post-petroleum citizen -- From enlightenment to entitlement : intended and unintended outcomes of social -- Engineering -- Explaining the paradox of the entitled patriot -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Ethnography, interviews, and focus groups -- Appendix B: Survey evidence -- References
Summary How are state leaders adapting their citizen-building strategies for globalization? What outcomes are they achieving, and why? Bedouins into Bourgeois investigates an ambitious state-led social engineering campaign in the United Arab Emirates, where leaders aimed to encourage more entrepreneurial, market-friendly, patriotic, and civic-minded citizens. Extensive ethnography - including interviews with a ruling monarch - reveals the rulers' reasoning and goals for social engineering. Through surveys and experiments, social engineering outcomes are examined, as well as the reasons for these outcomes, with surprising results. This fascinating study illustrates how social engineering strategies that use nationalism to motivate citizens can have paradoxical effects, increasing patriotism but unexpectedly discouraging or "crowding out" development-friendly mind-sets
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed August 8, 2017)
Subject Rural development -- United Arab Emirates
Bedouins -- Sedentarization -- United Arab Emirates
Bedouins -- United Arab Emirates -- Social conditions
Bedouins -- Sedentarization
Bedouins -- Social conditions
Rural development
Social conditions
SUBJECT United Arab Emirates -- Social conditions
Subject United Arab Emirates
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781316800010
1316800016