Participation culture in the Gulf : networks, politics and identity / edited by Nele Lenze and Charlotte Schriwer.
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 cultur...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Routledge,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st. |
| Series: | Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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.