On The New Cosmopolitan

Dubai and it's influence

Adrianne Kalfopoulou (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

120 Seiten

2023
Fulcrum Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-68275-346-0 (ISBN)

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On The New Cosmopolitan is an exploration of cosmopolitanism and its 21st-century manifestation in Dubai. “What do I see? Neon contours of a building at night. A near-empty walkway with a flashing monitor that reads: “Dubai Digital Park”; in the morning I see a concrete expanse of flat apartment rooftops amidst a humid, sand-infused horizon, the steaming heat of the desert temperature in August. Plasma screens along a walkway show various scenes of people eating, exercising, shopping, the only people I see. I am in an area called Silicon Oasis. Dubai, a city where 70% of the world is within an 8-hour plane flight from its airport, was built to represent the geographical factuality of its being a crossroads between East and West. A contemporary city of spectacle and the spectacular, it caters to all manner of the gaze.

Adrianne Kalfopoulou is a poet, essayist, and scholar. Her base is in Athens, Greece where she taught for many years at institutions of higher education. She has served as a poetry and nonfiction faculty mentor in the low residency Mile-High MFA program at Regis University, and was the McGee Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Davidson College for 2020-2021.

Erscheinungsdatum	27.06.2023
Reihe/Serie	Speaker's Corner
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Gewicht	145 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10	1-68275-346-8 / 1682753468
ISBN-13	978-1-68275-346-0 / 9781682753460
Zustand	Neuware