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The Fragmentary City
2024
Overview
As Andrew M. Gardner explains in
The Fragmentary City , in Qatar
and elsewhere on the Arabian Peninsula, nearly nine out of every
ten residents are foreign noncitizens . Many of these
foreigners reside in the cities that have arisen in Qatar and
neighboring states. The book provides an overview of the gulf
migration system with its diverse migrant experiences. Gardner
focuses on the ways that demography and global mobility have shaped
the city of Doha and the urban characteristics of the Arabian
Peninsula in general. Building on those migrant experiences, the
book turns to the spatial politics of the modern Arabian city,
exploring who is placed where in the city and how this social
landscape came into historical existence. The author reflects on
what we might learn from these cities and the societies that
inhabit them.
In The Fragmentary City , Andrew M. Gardner frames the
contemporary cities of the Arabian Peninsula not as poor imitations
of Western urban modernity, but instead as cities on the frontiers
of a global, neoliberal, and increasingly urban future.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
ISBN
1501775014, 9781501775017, 9781501775000, 1501775006, 9781501774980, 1501774999, 9781501774997, 1501774980
