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Title:
Dubai, the city as corporation
Author:
Kanna, Ahmed.
ISBN:
9780816676583
Publication Information:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 262 pages) : illustrations
Abstract:
Somewhere in the course of the late twentieth century, Dubai became more than itself. The city was, suddenly, a postmodern urban spectacle rising from the desert--precisely the glittering global consumer utopia imagined by Dubai's rulers and merchant elite. In "Dubai, the City as Corporation," Ahmed Kanna looks behind this seductive vision to reveal the role of cultural and political forces in shaping both the image and the reality of Dubai. Exposing local struggles over power and meaning in the making and representation of Dubai, Kanna examines the core questions of what gets built.
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