... in the following quote ... luxury travel', and how semiotic resources simultaneously index and constitute elite status. These cases are what they call 'global elite' (an examination of Emirates Airlines and the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai) ...
Often an out-of-bounds topic in critical social science, elites are thought of as too inaccessible a group to interview and too variable a minority to measure. This groundbreaking collection sets out to challenge this perception.
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In Impossible Citizens, Neha Vora draws on her ethnographic research in Dubai's Indian-dominated downtown to explore how Indians live suspended in a state of permanent temporariness.
Learn what life was like before gleaming skyscrapers and traffic jams, when Dubai was no more that a sandy fishing village.
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This is the only book currently in print in the English language dedicated exclusively to the subject of offal - a subject currently enjoying a resurgence in popularity and fashion - in all its many and surprising forms.
This is his story. If you are moved by immigrant stories, or books like America for Americans, Minor Feelings, How to Be an Antiracist, or The Making of Asian America, then you’ll want to read Dr. David Dao's story, Dragged Off.
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