Transnational Connections and the Arab Gulf (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Al-Rasheed, Madawi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Transnational Connections and the Arab Gulf presents a study of transnational cultural flows in the Gulf region and beyond. It combines an understanding of the region's historical connections with the outside world and an assessment of contemporary consequences of these connections. The contributors collected here analyze and map historical and contemporary manifestations of transnational networks within this region, linking them to wider debates on society, identity and political culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134323999
• Artikelnr.: 47884744

Autorenporträt

Madawi Al-Rasheed is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at King's College, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Localizing the Transnational and Transnationalizing the Local
Part 1: Historical Reflections on Gulf Transnationalism 1. An Anational
Society; Eastern Arabia in the Ottoman Period 2. Mapping the Transnational
Community: Persians and the space of the city in Bahrain c. 1869-1937 3.
Transnational Merchants in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf: The case of the
Safar family Part 2: Global and Local Networks 4. Dubai; Global city and
transnational hub 5. The Emergence of a Pan-Arab Market in Modern Media
Industries 6. Indonesians in Saudi Arabia: Religious and economic
connections Part 3: Beyond the Arab Gulf 7. Saudi Religious
Transnationalism in London 8. Wahhabism in the United Kingdom:
Manifestations and reactions