Market Orientalism : Cultural Economy and the Arab Gulf States /

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"Although the Arab states of the Persian Gulf are leaders in many of the measures of absolute wealth that have traditionally defined success in the global economy, they have had a much harder time becoming accepted in the equally fractured and hierarchal realm of the cultural economy, where pra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Benjamin (Assistant professor) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Syracuse New York : Syracuse University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Economic history.
Cultural property.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Comparative.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
Cultural property > United Arab Emirates.
United Arab Emirates.
United Arab Emirates > Economic conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Between hope and chastity in the Gulf
  • Reconfiguring cultural economy
  • Market orientalism
  • A historical, cultural economic geography of the Gulf: part one (1932-1972)
  • A historical, cultural economic geography of the Gulf : part two, peak Gulf (1973-1982)
  • The fantasy of the postcolonial regional economy : the case of the Gulf corporation council
  • Heat and booze : geopolitical competition meets cultural economy in the Gulf
  • The Gulf's diverse urban cultural economies
  • Gulf futures.

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