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Everyday Life in the Spectacular City
- Making Home in Dubai
Engelsk Paperback
Everyday Life in the Spectacular City
- Making Home in Dubai
Engelsk Paperback

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Everyday Life in the Spectacular City is a groundbreaking urban ethnography that reveals how middle-class citizens and longtime residents of Dubai interact with the city's so-called superficial spaces to create meaningful social lives. Rana AlMutawa shows that inhabitants adapt themselves to top-down development projects, from big malls to megaprojects. These structures serve residents' evolving social needs, transforming Dubai's spectacular spaces into personally important cultural sites. These practices are significant because they expand our understanding of agency as not only subversive but also adaptive. Through extensive fieldwork, AlMutawa, herself an Emirati native to Dubai, finds a more nuanced story of belonging. This story does not seek to uncover the "real" city that lies beneath the veneer of the spectacle, but rather to demonstrate that social meanings and forms of belonging take place within the spectacle itself. By offering an alternative to the discourse of authenticity and elucidating the dynamics of ambivalent belonging, AlMutawa belies stereotypes that portray Dubai's developments as alienating and inherently disempowering. Everyday Life in the Spectacular City speaks beyond the Middle East to a globalized phenomenon, for Dubai's spectacles are unexceptional in today's changing world.  
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
294
ISBN-13:
9780520395060
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0520395069
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
9 jan 2024
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
University of California Press
Oplagsdato:
9 jan 2024
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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