Nationalism and Nationhood in the United Arab Emirates

• Main Author: Ledstrup, Martin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: The Modern Muslim World
• Subjects: Middle East-Politics and government.; Regionalism.; Religion and politics.; Globalization.; Political economy.; Middle Eastern Politics.; Politics and Religion.; International Political Economy.

This book shows how an encounter with everyday nationhood in the northern United Arab Emirates can make us revisit the classics of sociology as continuous analytical world-views. Through the textual universe of Georg Simmel, and in particular his analysis of modern life as the feeling of dualism, th...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Chapter 1: Everyday Modernity: An Introduction
• 2. Chapter 2: Nationhood, Modernity, and the Everyday
• 3. Chapter 3: On The Road: National Form and the Globalizing Everyday
• 4. Chapter 4: Strangers in the Nation: Nearness, Distance, and the Everyday
• 5. Chapter 5: The National and the Fashionable: Everyday Nationhood as Dress
• 6. Chapter 6: Epilogue.