Subalterns and the city: Dubai as cross-cultural caravanserai in City of Life and Pinky Memsaab
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DOI: 10.1080/25785273.2020.1823077
Abstract: ABSTRACT Within the archetypal vision of Dubai as ostentatious oil-rich global megacity, this essay’s alternative scoping sees a city of interconnected spatio-cultural archipelagos. In these crisscrossing synapses, marginal outsiders can occupy potentially disruptive positions within… read more here.
Keywords: dubai; city; city life; subalterns city ... See more keywords
Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism
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DOI: 10.1111/gere.12186
Abstract: In Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson makes a bold effort to interpret the city of Accra under capitalist expansion in cultural terms. As an urbanist working from a social science epistemology, I looked forward to… read more here.
Keywords: city; oxford street; city life; street accra ... See more keywords