Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Exceptions and exceptionality in Dubai
  • Capitalism run amok? why the "Dubai story" is incomplete
  • The "rentier" state: oil, development, and migration
  • Multiple logics of governance
  • Citizenship and its exceptions
  • Exception and its exceptions: centering Agamben and Dubai in citizenship studies
  • Substantive and latitudinal citizenship within Dubai's Indian diaspora
  • Are Indians in Dubai diasporic?
  • Waves of indianness: taking and making the nation overseas
  • Logics of belonging and citizenship in diaspora studies
  • A tale of two creeks: cosmopolitan productions and cosmopolitan
  • Erasures in contemporary Dubai
  • New Dubai and the production of global futures
  • Selling Arabia: producing differentiated foreign subjects
  • Making purified pasts: heritage, citizenship, and national identity
  • The making of tradition
  • An Indian city? diasporic subjectivity and urban citizenship in old Dubai
  • Liminal diaspora, liminal nation
  • India extended: geographies of similarity and difference
  • Neither "expat" nor "laborer"
  • Diasporic identifications and ambivalences
  • Geographies of belonging and exclusion
  • Between global city and golden frontier: Indian businessmen
  • Unofficial citizenship, and shifting forms of belonging?
  • We built this country?
  • Freedom, cosmopolitanism, and re-export: Indian ocean networks
  • The creek frontier: mercantilism, masculinity, and nostalgia
  • Maneuvering neoliberalisms: monopolies of "freedom" in Dubai's gold industry
  • Non-citizen kafeels
  • Exceeding the economic: new modalities of belonging among middle-class Dubai Indians
  • Dubai is like a bus, an air-conditioned bus: economic migration and middle-class ideology
  • Racism and the failure of the free market
  • Race and the making of the middle class
  • Consumer citizenship, choice, and claims to the city
  • Becoming Indian in Dubai: parochialisms and globalisms in privatized education
  • DBCD: Dubai-born confused desi
  • Producing parochialisms through education
  • Globalized higher education in the Gulf
  • Dissonance, discrimination, and diasporic subjectification
  • Reassessing Gulf studies: citizenship, democracy, and the political
  • Rethinking the political
  • De-provincializing democracy
  • Making diasporic futures.