@ubiquity75 @downey (cont.) “…In doing so, they advance a problematic binary discourse about supposedly “authentic, local” spaces contrasted with alienating, “tourist” spaces. I address the question of who gets included and marginalized from these shopping malls and new developments, while also arguing that these places should not be dismissed as “non-places,” neatly separated from the everyd ay lives of inhabitants.” - #RanaAlMutawa @sociology
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@ubiquity75 @downey she’s quoted as saying:
#RanaAlMutawa: “It is not uncommon to find journalistic and academic accounts labelling Gulf cities, particularly their so-called glitzy spaces (such as shopping malls and new developments) as superficial and alienating. Some of these narratives implicitly or explicitly seek to uncover the “real” city that lies beneath the veneer of the spectacle”(cont) @sociology
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@ubiquity75 @downey An #Emirati #sociologist has written an interesting paper on te question of whether or not shopping malls can become the site of “authentic” communal spaces.
#RanaAlMutawa, ““Glitzy” Malls and Coffee Shops: Everyday Places of Belonging and Social Contestation in Dubai,” Arab Studies Journal, Vol. XXVIII, No. 2 (Fall 2020).
Discussion in
https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/42032 @sociology