Cracks in the Façade: Landscapes of Hope and Desire in Dubai

Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of being Global

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 160-181

  Haines, Chad ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Billboards, real estate projects advertised new lifestyles marketed; Brand Dubai, in Asia, Africa and Middle East, forms of urban presence; Brand India, "incredible" ignoring social and economic chasms in India, a global player; Cracks in the fa ade landscapes of hope and desire in Dubai; Dubai, on world stage as a global city Dubai, into the most visible spaces; Dubai as Brand, desirable landscapes brand images, landscaping hope and desire; Dubai as lived, landscapes of urban desires multiple manners, people act out their hopes in Dubai; IBEF, marking India as the "fastest growing free market democracy"; India's construction of a global power circulated, contra the image of India, Third World country; Worlding city, as "structured chaos" spaces of neoliberalizing city, planned and replanned

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873459742     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444346800.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

References (27)

1. Ahmed, A. (2007) Bachelors being evicted from villas. The Gulf News, August 9; http://archive.gulfnews.com/indepth/costofliving/Rent_x_Property/10145546.html (accessed November 7, 2007).
2. Auge, M. (1995) Non-Places: introduction to an anthropology of super modernity. London: Verso.
3. bin Ayat, A. HE, Secretary General of Dubai Executive Council (2007) Dubai Urban Development Framework Plan. Press release, August 27; http://www.urbisjhd.com/index.cfm?contentid=525 (accessed November 7, 2007).
4. Bourdieu, P. (1984) Distinction: a social critique of the judgment of taste. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
5. Brooks, R. (2006) Dubai's Islamic Disneyworld (originally published in The Los Angeles Times). March 3; http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0303-27.htm (accessed February 19, 2007).
6. Davis. M. (2005) Sinister paradise: does the road to the future end in Dubai? July 14; http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0714-31.htm (accessed February 19, 2007).
7. Davis, M. (2006) Fear and money in Dubai. New Left Review 41, September/October, 46-8.
8. Elsheshtawy, Y. (2006) From Dubai to Cairo: competing global cities, models, and shifting centers of influence? In D. Singerman and P. Amar (eds.) Cairo Cosmopolitan: politics, culture, and urban space in the new globalized Middle East. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press.
9. Fernandes, L. (2006) India's New Middle Class: democratic poltics in an era of economic reform. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
10. Friedman, T. (2005) The World is Flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
11. Government of Dubai (n.d.) Dubai Strategic Plan (2015); www.dubai.ae (accessed January 7, 2008).
12. Hertz, L. and Nader, L. (2005) On The Lexus and the Olive Tree. In C. Bestman and H. Gusterson (eds.) Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong: anthropologists talk back. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Human Rights Watch (2006) Building towers, cheating workers: exploitation of migrant construction workers in the United Arab Emirates, Human Rights Watch 18(8[(E]), November.
13. Huntington, S. (1993) The clash of civilizations? Foreign Affairs 72(3), 22-50.
14. IBEF (2008) Brand India: telling the India story. India Brand Equity Foundation, Gurgaon; http://www.ibef.org/brandindia (accessed January 7, 2008).
15. IBEF (n.d.) India, IBEF brochure. India Brand Equity Foundation, Gurgaon; http://www.ibef.org/artdisplay.aspx?cat_id=431&art_id=13877&arc=show (accessed January 7, 2008).
16. International Herald Tribune (2006) India wants the world to see it as it sees itself. October 26.
17. Miyazaki, H. (2006) Economy of dreams: hope in global capitalism and its critiques. Cultural Anthropology 21(2), 147-72.
18. Ramamurthy, P. (2003) Material consumers, fabricating subjects: perplexity, global connectivity discourses, and transnational feminist research. Cultural Anthropology 18(4), 524-50.
19. Sabban, R. (n.d.) Migrant women in the United Arab Emirates: the case of female domestic workers. GENPROM Working Paper No. 10. Gender Promotion Program, International Labour Office.
20. Sassen, S. (2001) The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
21. Sheer, R. (2006) Dubious Dubai deal (originally published in San Francisco Chronicle). March 1; http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0301-23.htm (accessed February 19, 2007).
22. DoBuy! A Dubai Documentary, a documentary filmed by Omair Bakhatulla, in 2006; http://www.youtube.com/user/omairways
23. http://aethoughts.blogspot.com
24. http://bujassem.blogspot.com
25. http://secretdubai.blogspot.com
26. http://uaecommunityblog.blogspot.com
27. www.ibef.org