Dubai, the City as Corporation - Paperback
by Ahmed Kanna
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Minnesota PressISBN-13:9780816656318ISBN-10:816656312UPC:9780816656318Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, AnthropologyBook Topic:Urban, Cultural & SocialSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC8ATR1KH3
Dubai, the City as Corporation
Somewhere in the course of the late twentieth century, Dubai became more than itself. The city was, suddenly, a postmodern urban spectacle rising from the desert-precisely the glittering global consumer utopia imagined by Dubai's rulers and merchant elite. In Dubai, the City as Corporation, Ahmed Kanna looks behind this seductive vision to reveal the role of cultural and political forces in...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Minnesota PressISBN-13:9780816656318ISBN-10:816656312UPC:9780816656318Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, AnthropologyBook Topic:Urban, Cultural & SocialSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC8ATR1KH3
Ahmed Kanna is assistant professor of anthropology and international studies at the University of the Pacific.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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