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Western Privilege
- Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai
Engelsk Paperback
Western Privilege
- Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai
Engelsk Paperback

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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 the formation of Westerners as a social group. Westernness is more than a passport; it is also an identity that requires emotional and bodily labor. And as they work, hook up, parent, and hire domestic help, Westerners chase Dubai's promise of socioeconomic elevation for the few. Through an ethnography informed by postcolonial and feminist theory, Le Renard reveals the diverse experiences and trajectories of white and non-white, male and female Westerners to understand the shifting and contingent nature of Westernness—and also its deep connection to whiteness and heteronormativity. Western Privilege offers a singular look at the lived reality of structural racism in cities of the global South.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781503629233
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1503629236
Udg. Dato:
21 sep 2021
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
151mm
Forlag:
Stanford University Press
Oplagsdato:
21 sep 2021
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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