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table of contents
  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. 1. Friday Ethnography and the City
  4. 2. Invisible Gas
  5. 3. The Journey to Arabia
  6. 4. The Gulf Migration System
  7. 5. Segregation and Space in the Modernist City
  8. 6. Compounds, Walls, and Cultural Sovereignty
  9. 7. An Urban Spatial Discourse
  10. 8. Ceaseless Growth and the Urban Trophy Case
  11. 9. Culture and Life in a Fragmented City
  12. Conclusion
  13. Postscript
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Index

Index

  • abd, 33
  • abolition, 34
  • Agamben, Giorgio, 93, 107, 164n7 (chap. 6)
  • Al Attiya. See Industrial Area
  • alcohol, 91–92, 134, 163n5
  • Alexander, Christopher, 27–28, 136–137, 146
  • Anderson, Elijah, 145–146
  • anthropology: and the ethnographic canon, 19; and imperialism, 19; and inequality, 86; and the liberal arts, 17; and objectivity, xi, 17; and photography, 27; and the scientific tradition, 17
  • Appadurai, Arjun, 15
  • ARAMCO, 87–88, 163n4
  • Asian City, 98, 103, 105–106
  • Asian Town, 81, 98
  • Aspire Zone, 100, 105
  • Augé, Marc, 104–105, 106, 136, 140, 147
  • auto-ethnography, 19
  • auto-Orientalism, 126
  • bachelor cities, 93, 98, 102, 135
  • bachelors, 78, 81. See also migration
  • Bahrain, 20, 23, 31, 35, 37, 58, 65, 70, 87–88, 106–107, 158–9n3, 165n2 (chap. 9)
  • Baluchistan, 33–34, 159n1
  • Bangladesh, 14, 75, 82, 144, 161n9
  • BAPCO, 88, 163n3
  • BARWA Real Estate, 101, 164n4
  • barzakh, 107, 147
  • bedouin, 11–12, 13–14, 32, 34, 72, 158n18
  • bedu. See bedouin
  • belonging, xi, 7, 33, 72, 119–120, 160n2
  • Benjamin, Walter, 25, 27, 159n6 (chap. 1)
  • Bernard, Russell, 20
  • blackness, 33
  • Boas, Franz, 11, 158n13; critiques of, 11
  • borders, 11–12, 14, 31, 84, 90, 146–150
  • boundaries. See borders; segregation; zones and zoning
  • Bourgois, Philippe, 23, 41, 136
  • Brasilia, 135–136
  • British Protectorates, 31, 33–34
  • brokers. See imagineers; labor brokers
  • Brown, Denise Scott, 27–28
  • Chinatown, 82
  • CIRS, Georgetown, 23
  • cities: capital, 118; and democracy, 7; and diversity, 122, 130, 145; early history, 6–7; and inequality, 7–8; and migration, 15; and nationalism, 118, 120; and the Neolithic era, 7; primate, 118; and stratification, 7
  • citizenship, 7, 14, 35, 57, 64, 70–72, 74, 91–92, 113–114, 149, 162n5, 165n4 (chap. 8); and inequality, 71–72; and migrants, 64, 70, 74–75; and segregation, 90
  • City Centre Mall, 79–80, 108
  • collective consumption, 119
  • colonialism, 31, 34, 68, 88; and the Arabian Peninsula, 31, 34; Ottoman, 31, 34, 88, 139–140, 147, 149
  • compounds, 84–86, 87–90, 93, 114, 134; history of, 87
  • consumer culture, 39, 78–79, 119, 165n7 (chap. 8)
  • contracts, 21, 47, 64, 112
  • cooke, miriam, 72, 107, 147
  • cordon sanitaire, 80
  • corniche. See Doha Corniche
  • cosmopolitan canopies, 8, 145
  • cosmopolitanism, 8, 33, 60, 74, 99, 145–146, 163n10
  • COVID, 80
  • cultural materialism, 39, 153
  • culture: and Boas, 11; and boundaries, 11, 82; cultural materialism, 39, 153; definition of, 10, 12, 16; and enclaves, 129; and globalization, 16; and migration, 12; and segregation, 92–93, 123; and space, 11, 92–93, 127, 142–44
  • Debord, Guy, 26, 117
  • dérive. See urban drifting
  • difference, 69–70, 104, 106–107, 122, 127, 130–131, 133–134, 141, 145–147, 148–150, 153–155, 158n9, 166n3 (conc.)
  • dirah, 11–12
  • diversity. See difference
  • Doha Corniche, 80
  • Douglas, Mary, 105, 142
  • dowry, 48, 51, 60, 143
  • Dresch, Paul, 15, 77, 90, 91–92, 158n12
  • Dubai Media City, 106
  • Durkheim, Emile, 8
  • Education City, 47, 91, 100, 103, 105
  • Egypt, 14, 44, 70, 73, 76, 129, 163n10
  • elitę agency, 120, 165n6 (chap. 9)
  • Elsheshtawy, Yasser, 4, 82, 136, 144, 159n7 (chap. 1), 164n5
  • Energy City, 105
  • Engels, Friedrich, 7–8, 25–26, 158n8
  • epistemological diversity, 5, 10–11, 60, 68, 150
  • ethnocracy, 107
  • ethnography, 3, 18–19; auto-ethnography, 19; defined, 18–19; diachronic approaches to, 24; and evidence, 19; and globalization, 22; good enough, 152; and impartiality, 153; and interviews, 20, 62–63; and language, 22; and mobility, 22; multi-sited, 21–24; and participant-living, 21, 25; and participant-observation, 21; and photography, 26–27, 28; and quantitative research, 24; and the city, 25, 28
  • family day, 78–79
  • family visa, 75–76
  • fareej, 9, 38, 82, 88–89, 126
  • fashion, 32
  • Fishman, Robert, 137
  • foreign matter, 15, 86, 90–93, 96, 104–107, 123, 126–127, 129, 134, 142
  • Foucault, Michel, 94–95, 96, 101, 164n1 (chap. 7), 165n2 (chap. 8)
  • freeholder developments, 92, 99–100, 110, 118
  • Furedi, Frank, 146
  • GCC, 14, 32, 35, 55–58, 61
  • Geertz, Clifford, 17, 33, 159
  • Gilroy, Paul, 153–154
  • Habermas, Jürgen, 9
  • hadhar, 13–14, 32, 34, 72, 158
  • hajj, 141–142, 145
  • Hannerz, Ulf, 145
  • Harris, Marvin, 153
  • Harvey, David, 39, 101–102, 111, 118, 137, 158, 164n8
  • heritage industry, 33
  • hierarchical multiculturalism, 77, 87–88, 107, 122, 130
  • Holston, James, 135
  • homo economicus, 60
  • identitarianism, 16, 86, 166n2 (postscript)
  • identity, 16, 33, 72, 83, 86, 113, 119, 151–152, 166n2 (postscript)
  • imagineers, 124, 130–131
  • imperialism, 11, 16, 19, 68, 87–88, 140, 149–150, 155
  • inclusion, xi, 150
  • independence, 31–32, 35
  • India, 14, 31, 51–53, 75–76, 138
  • Industrial Area, 21, 43–44, 47–48, 58, 71, 77, 79–82, 84, 86, 89, 99, 123, 127–128
  • inequality, 7–8, 25, 68–72, 79, 82–83, 86, 148, 151, 154–155, 157n6, 157–8n7, 162n3; and capitalism, 148; and the city, 7–8, 25, 82; and difference, 68–72, 148
  • informal urbanism, 135–136
  • integration, 11, 56–57, 68, 107, 149–150
  • interstitial urban space. See urban space
  • Islam, 70–71, 141
  • Jacobs, Jane, 8, 145, 166
  • kafala, 63–65, 69, 80–81, 113–114, 161–162; changes to, 65, 161–162n16; and journalism, 64; and the migrant experience, 64; and segregation, 80–81; and the state, 64–65
  • kafeel, 127–128
  • Katara Cultural Village, 100
  • Kathmandu, 1, 42–43, 56
  • Khalaf, Sulayman, 21, 32, 111, 159n5 (chap. 2)
  • Kluckhohn, Clyde, 10
  • knowledge based economy, 115, 116, 129
  • Koolhaas, Rem, 5, 140
  • Kroeber, Alfred, 10
  • Kumbh Mela, 138
  • labor brokers, 42–43, 47, 48, 62
  • labor camps, 20–23, 43–44, 47, 48–49, 50, 53, 63, 76–77, 81–82, 86, 127–128, 140, 143–144
  • Le Corbusier, 27, 103
  • Lévi-Strauss, Claude, xi, 28, 68, 153
  • longue durée, 6, 14, 24, 31, 148, 158n17
  • Longva, Ang Nga, 63, 71–72, 90, 107, 158n18, 161n11, 162n5
  • Lowie, Robert, 12
  • LTTE, 46, 59
  • Lusail, 100, 110
  • majlis, 106, 126–127
  • Malinowski, Bronislaw, 22
  • malls. See shopping malls
  • Maoists, 42, 59
  • Mater, Ahmed, 140
  • Mecca, 138–143
  • mega-events, 33, 116, 117–120
  • mega-projects, 140
  • metro, 39
  • migration: and Arabian history, 13, 34–36, 73; Arab, 73; Asian, 73; chain, 58, 77; circular, 58; and the city, 14; and class, 21, 56–57, 73–75, 162n1; and crises, 59; and culture, 12; cyclical, 57; demographics of, 14, 55–58; and difference, 69–70; and exploitation, 67; female, 76; and the GCC, 14, 57–58; and human history, 13; and inequality, 59, 63–64, 70–71; as industry, 62, 66–67; and integration, 68; motivations for, 60–61; and nationality, 69–70, 74; and Qatari history, 14; and race, 69–70, 74–75, 77; and remittances, 14; sending states, 14–15; and sending households, 57, 59; and sex, 75–76; and social networks, 66–67; and South Asia, 35; and the state, 34–36, 58, 67; system, 55–68
  • mobility, 5–6, 11, 13–14, 15–16, 22, 31–32, 34, 58, 62, 69, 76, 83–84, 90, 92, 104, 106, 122, 127, 138, 143–144, 146–149; and ethnography, 22; and human history, 13; era of, 11, 15–16, 22, 58, 62, 104, 106, 122, 127, 143–144, 146–148
  • Modernism, 5, 9, 27, 38, 102–104, 106, 134–136, 166n8
  • Modernity, 111–115
  • modernization theory, 112
  • Msheireb, 39, 96–98, 102, 105, 110, 163, 164n2
  • multiculturalism. See hierarchical multiculturalism
  • Mumford, Lewis, 7, 26, 96, 111, 138, 145, 158nn9–10
  • Museum of Islamic Art, 39
  • Nagy, Sharon, 4, 38, 89, 90, 126
  • nationalism, 33, 112, 119–120, 148
  • Nepal, 1, 14, 42–45, 48–51, 58–59, 75–76, 82
  • New Urbanism, 8–9, 103–104
  • New York City, 5, 108, 144–145, 163n14
  • nostalgia, 33, 159n3 (chap. 2)
  • Nouvel, Jean, 108
  • objectivity, xi, 11, 17, 28, 153
  • Olmsted, Frederick Law, 8
  • Ong, Aihwa, 92–93, 107
  • OPEC embargo, 14, 31, 35
  • organic solidarity, 8
  • Orientalism, 70–71, 112, 124, 126, 131; and imagineers, 131
  • otherness, 5, 25, 86, 107, 130, 141, 146, 148, 150, 152, 155
  • outmigration. See sending states
  • Pakistan, 22, 33, 58, 75
  • participant-observation, ix, 20–21, 23, 25, 28; and the city, 25; and experiential learning, 21; and participant living, 21, 25
  • pastoralism, 12–13, 32, 34, 105
  • Pearl, The, 92, 99–100, 102, 106, 110, 118–119
  • pearls, 32, 36
  • Pei, I. M., 39
  • Pereira, William, 108
  • petro-capitalism, 29–30, 159–160n7
  • photography, x, 26–27, 28
  • planetary humanism, 154
  • polis, 7
  • postmodernism, 27–28, 112, 136, 152, 157n2 (pref.), 158n14, 162n5, 164n8, 164–165n1, 166n3 (postscript)
  • primate cities, 118
  • psychogeography, 26
  • public sector, 35, 58, 113, 126–127, 142, 165n3. See also rentierism
  • public space, 8–9, 87, 131–136
  • Qatar: and colonialism, 31; demographics, 14, 37; and diversity, 37; and migration, 34–36; and social hierarchy, 69
  • Qatar Foundation, 91, 97, 163n10
  • Qatari Diar, 101
  • Qatar National Research Fund, 24, 154, 161n13
  • Qatar National Vision 2030, 115–117
  • Qatar United Development Company, 99–100, 101, 164n4
  • Qatar University, 23, 84–85, 89, 92, 114, 124; SESRI, 24
  • race, 69–70, 74–75, 77, 83, 151, 162n2
  • reflexive turn, 152
  • remittances, 14–15, 55–56, 64
  • rentierism, 35, 72–73, 92, 101, 112–114, 116, 126, 159, 160, 164–165; and urban development, 114–116
  • rentier state theory. See rentierism
  • ring roads, 38
  • Rudofsky, Bernard, 5
  • Saudi Arabia, 11–12, 31, 87, 106, 138–143, 158n3, 159n6 (chap. 2), 160n8, 160n14
  • Scott, James, 44, 102–103, 136
  • secondspace, 117, 165n5
  • sedentarization, 6, 14
  • segregation, 77–83; and citizenship, 90; and class, 83, 89–90; and culture, 82, 92–93, 123, 129; and gender, 90–91; and the kafala, 80–81; and market forces, 80–81; volitional, 82
  • SESRI, 24
  • sending states, 14–15, 22–23, 58–62, 73–74, 76, 161n5
  • Sennett, Richard, 136
  • shi’a, 33
  • shopping malls, 78–80, 83, 98, 100, 108, 117, 124–125, 140
  • slavery, 33–35, 157–158, 159n1
  • Situationists, 25–26, 158n11
  • sleeping partner, 114
  • social networks, 66–67, 126
  • social housing, 38
  • social prism, 10–11, 68–70, 77, 150, 153–155, 158n18
  • society, 12–13
  • Soja, Edward, 117
  • Souk Waqif, 39, 80, 97, 109, 164n5
  • sovereignty, 92–93, 107, 120
  • sponsorship, 21, 48, 63–65, 69, 76, 81, 114, 128, 129
  • starchitects, 39, 108, 103, 118
  • stereotypes, 12, 74, 76–78, 131
  • Sri Lanka, 22, 45–48, 59, 82
  • subagents, 61–62, 67
  • suburbanization, 38, 81, 85–86, 88–89, 97, 126
  • sunni, 33
  • superdiversity, 22, 33, 58, 75, 77–78, 89, 161n6
  • supermodernism, 136
  • symbolic economy, 96, 99, 105, 117–120
  • tabula rasa, 102–104, 106, 135
  • Tacoma, 134–135
  • technoburbs, 137
  • Terai, 1, 42
  • transnational proletariat, 21–22, 38, 80–82, 84, 90–92
  • tribalism, 12, 33, 72, 107, 111–113, 120, 127
  • tribe, 10, 11–12, 31–33, 72, 82, 88–89, 112, 142
  • Tylor, Edward Burnett, 10, 86
  • urban development, 96, 101; and bigness, 101–104; reasons for, 111; and surplus capital, 101; and vision statements, 115–116
  • urban drifting, 25–27, 108, 134–135, 159nn7–8
  • urban growth, 36–39, 106, 110–112, 116, 120; and capital surplus, 39, 101–102; and hydrocarbon wealth, 38
  • urban planning, 36, 100; and bigness, 100, 101–104; and Modernism, 135; and tabula rasa, 102
  • urban space, 8–9, 131–136, 164; interstitial, 131–136
  • urban spatial discourse, 94–107
  • Venturi, Robert, 27–28
  • Villaggio Mall, 78–79, 100
  • visas, 61–62; market price for, 61–62
  • Vision 2030, 100
  • vision statements, 99–100, 115
  • Vizag, 51
  • walls, 36, 47, 86–88, 93, 134–135
  • wasta, 126–127
  • Watts, Michael, 29–30
  • West Bay, 2, 108
  • work visas, 61–62
  • World Cup, 91, 98–99, 116, 118, 163n5
  • zones and zoning, 81, 100, 104–106, 143–144, 163n5; morality zoning, 163n5

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