Impossible citizens : Dubai's Indian diaspora /
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| Author / Creator: | Vora, Neha, 1974- |
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| Imprint: | Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2013. |
| Description: | xi, 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9043337 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Exceptions and exceptionality in Dubai
- Capitalism run amok? why the "Dubai story" is incomplete
- The "rentier" state: oil, development, and migration
- Multiple logics of governance
- Citizenship and its exceptions
- Exception and its exceptions: centering Agamben and Dubai in citizenship studies
- Substantive and latitudinal citizenship within Dubai's Indian diaspora
- Are Indians in Dubai diasporic?
- Waves of indianness: taking and making the nation overseas
- Logics of belonging and citizenship in diaspora studies
- A tale of two creeks: cosmopolitan productions and cosmopolitan
- Erasures in contemporary Dubai
- New Dubai and the production of global futures
- Selling Arabia: producing differentiated foreign subjects
- Making purified pasts: heritage, citizenship, and national identity
- The making of tradition
- An Indian city? diasporic subjectivity and urban citizenship in old Dubai
- Liminal diaspora, liminal nation
- India extended: geographies of similarity and difference
- Neither "expat" nor "laborer"
- Diasporic identifications and ambivalences
- Geographies of belonging and exclusion
- Between global city and golden frontier: Indian businessmen
- Unofficial citizenship, and shifting forms of belonging?
- We built this country?
- Freedom, cosmopolitanism, and re-export: Indian ocean networks
- The creek frontier: mercantilism, masculinity, and nostalgia
- Maneuvering neoliberalisms: monopolies of "freedom" in Dubai's gold industry
- Non-citizen kafeels
- Exceeding the economic: new modalities of belonging among middle-class Dubai Indians
- Dubai is like a bus, an air-conditioned bus: economic migration and middle-class ideology
- Racism and the failure of the free market
- Race and the making of the middle class
- Consumer citizenship, choice, and claims to the city
- Becoming Indian in Dubai: parochialisms and globalisms in privatized education
- DBCD: Dubai-born confused desi
- Producing parochialisms through education
- Globalized higher education in the Gulf
- Dissonance, discrimination, and diasporic subjectification
- Reassessing Gulf studies: citizenship, democracy, and the political
- Rethinking the political
- De-provincializing democracy
- Making diasporic futures.
