Participation Culture in the Gulf

Networks, Politics and Identity
Herausgeber: Lenze, Nele; Schriwer, Charlotte

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the civil-social interactions which have shaped and continue to influence the political and social development of modern Gulf societies. It analyses the influence of public and private social spaces, such as sports arenas and dawawin as well as developments in the legal and cultural spheres.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9781138480872
• ISBN-10: 1138480878
• Artikelnr.: 53779894

Autorenporträt

Nele Lenze is a visiting assistant professor at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait. Her research focuses on the cultural online sphere in the Gulf. Charlotte Schriwer is a historian and art hostorian of the Middle East. Her research focuses on various historical studies of the Levant region.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Sociopolitical Transformations and Civil Society Engagement 1. New
Spaces and Sociabilities are Reshaping Emirati Society, Jane Bristol-Rhys
2. Art, Politics and Social Change in the Gulf, Charlotte Schriwer
3.Unusual Suspects: Sport in the Gulf as an arena of protest and change,
James Dorsey Part II: Untraditional Actors in the Public Political Space
4. Legal Actors and Sociopolitical Change in the Arab Gulf, David Mednicoff
5. Public Property Law in Kuwait and the Popular Movement that Never
Started: The 2008 Diwaniyya Demolitions, James C.A.Redman 6. Challenges and
Aspirations of the "Post-Oil Nation" in the Sultanate of Oman, Veronika
Deffner Part III: Nation, Identity and Change 7. National Identity in the
UAE and Its Capacity for Social Transformation, James Toth 8. Networks
Online and Offline: Spaces of Cultural Production in the Gulf, Nele Lenze
9. Urban Iranian Youths as the Pivotal Subjects of Social Movements in
Iran, Gi Yeon Koo