Everyday life in the “glitzy” city: navigating belonging and exclusion in Dubai

In this thesis, I argue that the dominant discourse on Dubai and other spectacular cities implicitly or explicitly seeks to uncover the “real” city that lies beneath the veneer of the spectacle. In doing so, the existing scholarship advances a problematic binary discourse about supposedly “authentic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: AlMutawa, R
Other Authors: Krishnan, S
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2021
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