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Monarchies and nations : globalisation and identity in the Arab states of the Gulf. /Paul Dresch.

By: Dresch, Paul. ; Piscatori, James PContributor(s): Paul DreschMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: Technical Bureau India Pvt Ltd. | E/261, Shastri Nagar, Delhi 110052Publication details: London : I.B. Tauris , 2013. ©2013Description: vii, 311 pages ; 24 cmISBN: 9781848858664Subject(s): NationalismGenre/Form: Nationalism -- Persian Gulf States. | National characteristics, Arab.DDC classification: 953.6 DRE

Contents:

Introduction : societies, identities and global issues / Paul Dresch -- Channels of interaction : the role of Gulf-owned media firms in globalisation / Naomi Sakr -- Dialect and national identity : the cultural politics of self-representation in Bahraini Musalsalāt / Clive Holes -- Cultural construction, the Gulf and Arab London / Christa Salamandra -- Transnational connections and national identity : Zanzibari Omanis in Muscat / Madawi Al-Rasheed -- Neither autocracy nor democracy but ethnocracy : citizens, expatriates and the socio-political system in Kuwait / Anh Nga Longva -- Debates on marriage and nationality in the United Arab Emirates / Paul Dresch -- Public order and authority : policing Kuwait / Jill Crystal -- Gender, religious knowledge and education in Oman / Mandana E. Limbert -- Political actors without the franchise : women and politics in Kuwait / Haya al-Mughni, Mary Ann Tétreault -- Managing God's guests : the pilgrimage, Saudi Arabia and the politics of legitimacy / James Piscatori.

Summary: Despite their small populations, Arab states exercise an enormous and global influence. By combining the views of anthropologists, political scientists and others, this book explores how the citizen populations of these states define themselves in a wider context.

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Introduction : societies, identities and global issues / Paul Dresch --
Channels of interaction : the role of Gulf-owned media firms in globalisation / Naomi Sakr --
Dialect and national identity : the cultural politics of self-representation in Bahraini Musalsalāt / Clive Holes --
Cultural construction, the Gulf and Arab London / Christa Salamandra --
Transnational connections and national identity : Zanzibari Omanis in Muscat / Madawi Al-Rasheed --
Neither autocracy nor democracy but ethnocracy : citizens, expatriates and the socio-political system in Kuwait / Anh Nga Longva --
Debates on marriage and nationality in the United Arab Emirates / Paul Dresch --
Public order and authority : policing Kuwait / Jill Crystal --
Gender, religious knowledge and education in Oman / Mandana E. Limbert --
Political actors without the franchise : women and politics in Kuwait / Haya al-Mughni, Mary Ann Tétreault --
Managing God's guests : the pilgrimage, Saudi Arabia and the politics of legitimacy / James Piscatori.

Despite their small populations, Arab states exercise an enormous and global influence. By combining the views of anthropologists, political scientists and others, this book explores how the citizen populations of these states define themselves in a wider context.

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