Dubai: Gilded Cage - Brossura

Ali, Syed

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ISBN 10: 0300152175 ISBN 13: 9780300152173

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2010

Riassunto

In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure Gulf emirate into a global center for business, tourism, and luxury living. It is a fascinating case study in light-speed urban development, hyperconsumerism, massive immigration, and vertiginous inequality. Its rulers have succeeded in making Dubai into a worldwide brand, publicizing its astonishing hotels and leisure opportunities while at the same time successfully downplaying its complex policies towards guest workers and suppression of dissent.

In this enormously readable book, Syed Ali delves beneath the dazzling surface to analyze how—and at what cost—Dubai has achieved such success. Ali brings alive a society rigidly divided between expatriate Westerners living self-indulgent lifestyles on short-term work visas, native Emiratis who are largely passive observers and beneficiaries of what Dubai has become, and workers from the developing world who provide the manual labor and domestic service needed to keep the emirate running, often at great personal cost.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Syed Ali currently teaches at Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY.

Product Description:

Book by Ali Syed

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0300152175
• ISBN 13: 9780300152173
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240