Everyday life in the spectacular city : making home in Dubai /

"Everyday Life in the Spectacular City is a groundbreaking urban ethnography that reveals how middle-class citizens and longtime residents of Dubai interact with the city's so-called superficial spaces to create meaningful social lives. Rana AlMutawa shows that inhabitants adapt themselves...

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Main Author: AlMutawa, Rana, 1989- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]
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