| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 311 pages) |
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Library of Modern Middle East Studies |
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Library of modern Middle East studies.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
*No book on the sociology of the Gulf exists *Highly topical in view of regional insecurities *Editors and contributors are top flight names 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 if their only importance were as counters on a strategic game board. This book takes a quite different approach. By combining the views of anthropologists, political scientists and others, it explores how the citizen populations of these states define themselves in a wider context. As elsewhere i |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-299) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nationalism -- Persian Gulf
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National characteristics, Arab.
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Arabs.
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Asian history.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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Arabs.
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National characteristics, Arab.
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Nationalism.
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Persian Gulf.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dresch, Paul
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Piscatori, James P
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| ISBN |
1423729048 |
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9781423729044 |
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1282527924 |
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9781282527928 |
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6000008511 |
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9786000008512 |
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9780857714855 |
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0857714856 |
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