Neha Vora

Impossible Citizens

Dubai's Indian Diaspora

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Neha Vora is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780822353782
• ISBN-10: 0822353784
• Artikelnr.: 36693429

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Exceptions and Exceptionality in Dubai 3
1. A Tale of Two Creeks: Cosmopolitan Productions and Cosmopolitan Erasures
in Contemporary Dubai 36
2. An Indian City? Diasporic Subjectivity and Urban Citizenship in Old
Dubai 65
3. Between Global City and Golden Frontier: Indian Businessmen, Unofficial
Citizenship, and Shifting Forms of Belonging 91
4. Exceeding the Economic: New Modalities of Belonging among Middle-class
Dubai Indians 117
5. Becoming Indian in Dubai: Parochialisms and Globalisms in Privatized
Education 144
Conclusion. Reassessing Gulf Studies: Citizenship, Democracy, and the
Political 171
Notes 191
Bibliography 221
Index 235