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“henry rutz”

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  • Reproducing Class

    Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul

    by Henry Rutz, Erol M. Balkan ...
    Middle classes are by definition ambiguous, raising all sorts of paradoxical questions, perceived and real, about their power and place relative to those above and below them in a class-structured society. Focusing on families of the new middle class in Istanbul, the authors of this study address questions about the social construction of middle-class reality in the context of the rapid changes ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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  • Markets of Dispossession

    NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo

    by Julia Adams, George Steinmetz, Julia Elyachar ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    What happens when the market tries to help the poor? In many parts of the world today, neoliberal development programs are offering ordinary people the tools of free enterprise as the means to well-being and empowerment. Schemes to transform the poor into small-scale entrepreneurs promise them the benefits of the market and access to the rewards of globalization. Markets of Dispossession is a ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • 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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  • 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

    $58.99 USD

  • THE WESTERN DILEMMA

    by Mehmet Faruk Demir ...
    The world is not falling apart. It is rearranging itself.In an age of extraordinary information, governments possess more data, intelligence, technology, and analytical capacity than ever before—yet strategic clarity often remains elusive.The Western Dilemma asks why.Mehmet Faruk Demir introduces the Strategic Intersection Framework, an approach to grand strategy that examines not only events, but ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Change in the Gulf Region

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Md Mizanur Rahman, Amr Al-Azm ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book, comprising thirty-nine chapters divided into social, cultural, economic, and political spheres, offers a unique opportunity to dive into the complex, dynamic, and sometimes contradictory transformation of Gulf societies in the last few decades. Whilst the Gulf region has at times been seen as impervious to this natural phenomenon of transformation—timeless, never changing, ... Read more

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  • Lives in Limbo

    Syrian Youth in Turkey

    by Maissam Nimer, Ayşen Üstübici, Amal Abdulla, Rebecca Bryant ...
    Series Book 49 - Forced Migration
    More than a decade since the start of the war in Syria, Turkey is home to almost four million of that country’s displaced citizens. Youth is one of the most vulnerable groups within the refugee population, as they struggle with language and education barriers and demands on them to assimilate while retaining their own culture. Lives in Limbo gives voice to the dreams of Syrian youth who have ... Read more

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  • Western Privilege

    Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai

    by Amélie Le Renard ...
    Translated by Jane Kuntz ...
    Series series Worlding the Middle East
    Nearly 90 percent of residents in Dubai are foreigners with no Emirati nationality. As in many global cities, those who hold Western passports share specific advantages: prestigious careers, high salaries, and comfortable homes and lifestyles. With this book, Amélie Le Renard explores how race, gender and class backgrounds shape experiences of privilege, and investigates the processes that lead to ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Deconstructing Placemaking

    Needs, Opportunities, and Assets

    by Mahyar Arefi ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    A new taxonomy of placemaking is needed; concerns have been expressed about the professionalization of placemaking through the proliferation of standards, zoning codes, and restrictive covenants. "Place matters" has become a mantra in many disciplines - architecture, urban planning and urban design, geography, and sociology to name a few. While conceptualized narrowly by individual disciplines, a ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Coping with Uncertainty

    Youth in the Middle East and North Africa

    Edited by Ralf Hexel, Jörg Gertel ...
    Seven years after the Arab uprisings, the social situation has deteriorated across the Middle East and North Africa. Political, economic and personal insecurities have expanded while income from oil declined and tourist revenues have collapsed due to political instability. Against a backdrop of escalating armed conflicts and disintegrating state structures, many have been forced from their homes, ... Read more

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  • Bureaucratic Intimacies

    Translating Human Rights in Turkey

    by Elif M. Babül ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    Human rights are politically fraught in Turkey, provoking suspicion and scrutiny among government workers for their anti-establishment left-wing connotations. Nevertheless, with eyes worldwide trained on Turkish politics, and with accession to the European Union underway, Turkey's human rights record remains a key indicator of its governmental legitimacy. Bureaucratic Intimacies shows how ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Politics in the Crevices

    Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul

    by Sarah El-Kazaz ...
    In Politics in the Crevices, Sarah El-Kazaz takes readers into the world of urban planning and design practices in Istanbul and Cairo. In this transnational ethnography of neighborhoods undergoing contested rapid transformations, she reveals how the battle for housing has shifted away from traditional political arenas onto private crevices of the city. She outlines how multiple actors—from highly ... Read more

    $20.19 USD