UID:
almafu_9960741874202883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
1-5017-5030-5
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1-5017-5032-1
Series Statement:
Cornell scholarship online
Content:
Over the nearly two decades that they have each been conducting fieldwork in the Arabian Peninsula, Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, and Neha Vora have regularly encountered exoticising and exceptionalist discourses about the region and its people, political systems, and prevalent cultural practices. These persistent encounters became the springboard for this book, a reflection on conducting fieldwork within a 'field' that is marked by such representations. The three focus on deconstructing the exceptionalist representations that circulate about the Arabian Peninsula. They analyse what exceptionalism does, how it is used by various people, and how it helps shape power relations in the societies they study.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2020.
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Introduction : ethnography from the exceptional to the everyday / Amelie Le Renard, Neha Vora, Ahmed Kanna -- Space, mobility, and shifting identities in the constitution of the "field"/ Neha Vora, Ahmed Kanna, Amelie Le Renard -- How western residents in Riyadh and Dubai produce and challenge exceptionalism / Amelie Le Renard -- Anthropology and the educational encounter / Neha Vora -- Class struggle and deexceptionalizing the Gulf / Ahmed Kanna -- Conclusion : centering the Arabian Peninsula, decolonizing the academy / Ahmed Kanna, Amelie Le Renard, Neha Vora.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-5017-5029-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-5017-5031-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781501750328
