Bedouins into Bourgeois
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Bedouins into Bourgeois

Remaking Citizens for Globalization

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Bedouins into Bourgeois

Remaking Citizens for Globalization

About this book

How are state leaders adapting their citizen-building strategies for globalization? What outcomes are they achieving, and why? Bedouins into Bourgeois investigates an ambitious state-led social engineering campaign in the United Arab Emirates, where leaders aimed to encourage more entrepreneurial, market-friendly, patriotic, and civic-minded citizens. Extensive ethnography - including interviews with a ruling monarch - reveals the rulers' reasoning and goals for social engineering. Through surveys and experiments, social engineering outcomes are examined, as well as the reasons for these outcomes, with surprising results. This fascinating study illustrates how social engineering strategies that use nationalism to motivate citizens can have paradoxical effects, increasing patriotism but unexpectedly discouraging or "crowding out" development-friendly mind-sets.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Note on Transliteration
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Rethinking the Making of Citizens
  10. 2 Seeing Like a Sheikh
  11. 3 Enlightenment under Autocracy
  12. 4 Symbolism, Spectacle, and the Shaping of the Post-Petroleum Citizen
  13. 5 From Enlightenment to Entitlement: Intended and Unintended Outcomes of Social Engineering
  14. 6 Nationalism as Self-Esteem Boosting: Explaining the Paradox of the Entitled Patriot
  15. 7 Conclusion
  16. Appendix A Ethnography, Interviews, and Focus Groups
  17. Appendix B Survey Evidence
  18. References
  19. Index