The Fragmentary City

Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, Qatar

Andrew M. Gardner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

198 Seiten

2024
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-7501-7 (ISBN)

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As Andrew M. Gardner explains in The Fragmentary City, in Qatar and elsewhere on the Arabian Peninsula, nearly nine out of every ten residents are foreign noncitizens. Many of these foreigners reside in the cities that have arisen in Qatar and neighboring states. The book provides an overview of the gulf migration system with its diverse migrant experiences. Gardner focuses on the ways that demography and global mobility have shaped the city of Doha and the urban characteristics of the Arabian Peninsula in general. Building on those migrant experiences, the book turns to the spatial politics of the modern Arabian city, exploring who is placed where in the city and how this social landscape came into historical existence. The author reflects on what we might learn from these cities and the societies that inhabit them.

In The Fragmentary City, Andrew M. Gardner frames the contemporary cities of the Arabian Peninsula not as poor imitations of Western urban modernity, but instead as cities on the frontiers of a global, neoliberal, and increasingly urban future.

Andrew M. Gardner is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. He has focused his research on the places, peoples and societies that interact on the Arabian Peninsula, where he has conducted extensive fieldwork.

Introduction
1. Friday Ethnography and the City
2. Invisible Gas
3. The Journey to Arabia
4. The Gulf Migration System
5. Segregation and Space in the Modernist City
6. Compounds, Walls, and Cultural Sovereignty
7. An Urban Spatial Discourse
8. Ceaseless Growth and the Urban Trophy Case
9. Culture and Life in a Fragmented City
Conclusion: A City I Will Never See

Erscheinungsdatum	03.04.2024
Zusatzinfo	17 b&w halftones - 17 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5017-7501-4 / 1501775014
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-7501-7 / 9781501775017
Zustand	Neuware