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Title Regionalizing Oman : political, economic and social dynamics / Steffen Wippel, editor
Published Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 351 pages)
Series United Nations University series on regionalism ; v. 6
United Nations University series on regionalism ; 6.
Contents "Regionalizing Oman": A New Interest of Research on Oman and Its Spatial Dimensions / Steffen Wippel -- Concepts of Regionalisation and Region-Building. Conceptual Considerations of "Space" and "Region": Political, Economic and Social Dynamics of Region-Building / Steffen Wippel -- Theorizing Regionalism(s): When "Regions" Emerge and Interact / Ulrike Lorenz-Carl, Frank Mattheis -- Working with "Translocality": Conceptual Implications and Analytical Consequences / Katrin Bromber -- The Translocal, Transnational and Transregional Movement of People. "We Are Part of Zanzibar" -- Translocal Practices and Imaginative Geographies in Contemporary Oman-Zanzibar Relations / Julia Verne, Detlef Müller-Mahn -- Of Red Cells, Translocality and Origins: Inherited Blood Disorders in Oman / Claire Beaudevin -- Oman-India Relations: Exploring the Long-Term Migration Dynamics / Samir Pradhan Ph. D. -- Negotiating Authenticity and Translocality in Oman: The "Desertscapes" of the Harasiis Tribe / Dawn Chatty -- Micro and Macro Regionalisation Through Economic Practices. Re-reading the Role of Oman Within Its International Trade Relations: From the Sixteenth Through to the Nineteenth Centuries / Beatrice Nicolini Ph. D. -- Oman and the Indian Ocean Rim -- Economic Integration Across Conventional Meta-Regions / Steffen Wippel -- Oman Caught Between the GCC Customs Union and Bilateral Free Trade with the US: Is It Worth Breaking the Rules? / Anja Zorob -- Musandam and Its Trade with Iran. Regional Linkages Across the Strait of Hormuz / Michael Benz M.A. -- Is Littoralization Reconfiguring the Omani Territory? / Belgacem Mokhtar -- The Impact of Shopping Malls on Traditional Retail Stores in Muscat. Case Study of Al-Seeb Wilayat / Montasser I.M. Abdelghani -- State and Society in Regional and Global Perspectives. Private Documents as a Source for Regional History: The Archive of the ʻAbrīyīn of Al-Ḥamrā' / Michaela Hoffmann-Ruf -- Domesticating Local Elites. Sheikhs, Walis and State-Building Under Sultan Qaboos / Marc Valeri -- Musandam: Creating a New Region Across the Water / Gulshan Dietl Ph. D. -- The Political Economy of Internationalization and Privatization of Higher Education in the Sultanate of Oman / Torsten Brandenburg -- Bringing the Global and the Local Together Through English in Oman / Rahma Ibrahim Al-Mahrooqi, Victoria Tuzlukova -- Conclusion. Concluding Remarks: Regionalizing Oman Beyond Conventional Metageographies / Steffen Wippel
Summary This volume addresses the historical structures and current dynamics of Oman's regionalization processes and their political, economic and social dimensions. It is based on an interdisciplinary and trans-regional dialogue between scholars from different social sciences and area studies such as political science, economics, management, economic and social geography, history, social anthropology and linguistics as well as Middle East/West Asian, gulf and African studies, and develops four major axes of research: Oman's integration into global and regional flows of goods, capital, people and ideas; the multi-scaled political negotiation of such integration (or disintegration) processes; consequences of suchlike processes and forms of regionalization for (translocal) actors; ideas and strategic communication of regional belonging and the constitution of regions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Regionalism -- Oman
Public administration -- Oman
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Droit.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Public administration
Regionalism
Politics and Government.
Oman
Form Electronic book
Author Wippel, Steffen
ISBN 9789400768215
9400768214