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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “minoo moallem”
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  • Persian Carpets

    The Nation as a Transnational Commodity

    by Minoo Moallem ...
    Series series Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology
    Persian Carpets: the Nation As a Transnational Commodity tracks the Persian carpet as an exotic and mythological object, as a commodity, and as an image from mid-nineteenth-century England to contemporary Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Following the journey of this single object, the book brings issues of labor into conversation with the politics of aesthetics. It focuses on the carpet as a ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Feminist Futures

    Reimagining Women, Culture and Development

    by Amy Lind, Rachel Simon-Kumar, Ifi Amadiume, Raka Ray, Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Dana Collins, Peter Chua, David McKie, Banu Subramaniam, Arturo Escobar, Wendy Harcourt, Ming-yan Lai, Minoo Moallem, Anjali Prabhu, Linda Klouzal, Julia D Shayne ...
    Straddling disciplines and continents, Feminist Futures interweaves scholarship and social activism to explore the evolving position of women in the South.Working at the intersection of cultural studies, critical development studies and feminist theory, the book's contributors articulate a radical and innovative framework for understanding the linkages between women, culture and development, ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    Cultural Capital of Europe?

    Edited by Deniz Göktürk, Levent Soysal, Ipek Tureli ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Looking at the globalization, urban regeneration, arts events and cultural spectacles, this book considers a city not until now included in the global city debate.Divided into five parts, each preceded by an editorial introduction, this book is an interdisciplinary study of an iconic city, a city facing conflicting social, political and cultural pressures in its search for a place in Europe and on ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

  • The Diasporic Condition

    Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World

    by Ghassan Hage ...
    Bridging the gap between migration studies and the anthropological tradition, Ghassan Hage illustrates that transnationality and its attendant cultural consequences are not necessarily at odds with classic theory.In The Diasporic Condition, Ghassan Hage engages with the diasporic Lebanese community as a shared lifeworld, defining a common cultural milieu that transcends spatial and temporal ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Evolving Arab City

    Tradition, Modernity and Urban Development

    Edited by Yasser Elsheshtawy ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Today cities of the Arab world are subject to many of the same problems as other world cities, yet too often they are ignored in studies of urbanisation.This collection reveals the contrasts and similarities between older, traditional Arab cities and the newer oil-stimulated cities of the Gulf in their search for development and a place in the world order. The eight cities which form the core of ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle

    by Yasser Elsheshtawy ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Yasser Elsheshtawy explores Dubai’s history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to its place on the world stage today, using historical narratives, travel descriptions, novels and fictional accounts by local writers to bring colour to his history of the city’s urban development.With the help of case studies and surveys this book explores the economic and political forces driving Dubai’s ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Istanbul

    Between the Global and the Local

    by Ayfer Bartu, Tanil Bora, Sema Erder, Ayse Oncu, Martin Stokes, Jenny White, Yael Navaro-Yasin ...
    Series series World Social Change
    This groundbreaking volume investigates the processes of globalization in one of the oldest and grandest of world cities. Istanbul usually is identified as a battleground between East and West, Islam and secularism. Yet the authors argue that beyond these clichés lies a complex reality as Istanbulites simultaneously try to accommodate, understand, challenge, and shape the sweeping transformations ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Global Dreams

    Space, Class, and Gender in Middle-Class Cairo

    by Anouk de Koning ...
    At the start of the twenty-first century, Cairo's cityscape has acquired a spectacular global touch. Its luxurious five-star hotels, high-rise office buildings, immaculately clean malls, and swanky coffee shops serving café latte and caesar salad, along with the budding gated communities in the city's desert expanses, exemplify three decades of economic liberalization. In the surrounding social ... Read more

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  • Tourism in the Middle East

    Continuity, Change and Transformation

    Edited by Dr. Rami Farouk Daher ...
    Series Book 9 - Tourism and Cultural Change
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    $27.99 CAD

  • War and Migration

    Social Networks and Economic Strategies of the Hazaras of Afghanistan

    by Alessandro Monsutti ...
    Series series Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law
    Focusing on the case of the Hazaras, a population from central Afghanistan, this book shows how migration studies and transnationalism are at the heart of theoretical and methodological debates which animate anthropology. ... Read more

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    State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey

    by Esra Özyürek, George Steinmetz, Julia Adams ...
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    As the twentieth century drew to a close, the unity and authority of the secularist Turkish state were challenged by the rise of political Islam and Kurdish separatism on the one hand and by the increasing demands of the European Union, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank on the other. While the Turkish government had long limited Islam—the religion of the overwhelming majority of ... Read more

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    by Karen Exell ...
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