Dreamscapes of Dubai: Geographies and Genealogies of Global City Status

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dc.contributor.advisorKempadoo, Kamala
dc.creatorTicku, Alisha
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-27T13:39:30Z
dc.date.available2017-07-27T13:39:30Z
dc.date.copyright2017-02-15
dc.date.issued2017-07-27
dc.date.updated2017-07-27T13:39:30Z
dc.degree.disciplinePolitical Science
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation asks how Dubais dream and position as a global city impacts on and is impacted by the experiences of a migrant-majority population; and, simultaneously, how the operation of highly exclusionary citizenship regimes and everyday ideologies work to justify and rationalize social hierarchies. It explores the making of Dubais global, developmental trajectory through a multiplicity of dreams and temporalities as they shape urban landscapes and social hierarchies in the city. Methodologically, it operates through an understanding of the simultaneity of social scales, which allows, in part, for an examination of how the everyday offers insight as a counterpoint to the spectacle of globality. Theoretically I argue that understanding the construction of particular subjectivities created through relational identity formation and processes of Othering based on privilege and exclusion allows for a more complex understanding of the social, political, economic and imaginary realms through which we might challenge social hierarchies and the subsequent violence(s) they engender as somehow natural, inevitable, increasingly acceptable, and at times, necessary in the making of neoliberal globality. It is argued that migration is an integral and foundational aspect of Dubais development and global allure, illustrated by mapping the diverse routes that comprise geographies of migration to the city, while simultaneously unmapping the historical genealogies that accompany migrants on their journeys to the city. Together, these examinations allow us to trace histories of race, nationality, class and gender, operating at different scales, and in different forms and temporalities, to rationalize, normalize, and even, legitimize violent landscapes and hierarchies.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/33541
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectMiddle Eastern studies
dc.subject.keywordsDubai
dc.subject.keywordsUnited Arab Emirates
dc.subject.keywordsGCC
dc.subject.keywordsMiddle East
dc.subject.keywordsGlobal city
dc.subject.keywordsMigration
dc.subject.keywordsDevelopment
dc.subject.keywordsCitizenship
dc.subject.keywordsNationality
dc.subject.keywordsNeoliberalism
dc.subject.keywordsRace
dc.subject.keywordsHierarchies of entitlement
dc.subject.keywordsOthering
dc.subject.keywordsPrivilege
dc.subject.keywordsLived experiences
dc.subject.keywordsEveryday
dc.subject.keywordsIdeology
dc.subject.keywordsIdeologies of ordering
dc.subject.keywordsGenealogy
dc.subject.keywordsGeography
dc.subject.keywordsImaginaries of the global
dc.subject.keywordsSpace
dc.subject.keywordsPost colonialism
dc.subject.keywordsCritical race
dc.subject.keywordsOrientalism Keywords: Dubai
dc.subject.keywords‘Everyday’ narratives
dc.subject.keywordsIdeologies of ordering
dc.subject.keywordsImaginaries of the global.
dc.titleDreamscapes of Dubai: Geographies and Genealogies of Global City Status
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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