The Fragmentary City
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The Fragmentary City

Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, Qatar

  1. 204 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Fragmentary City

Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, Qatar

About this book

As Andrew M. Gardner explains in The Fragmentary City, in Qatar and elsewhere on the Arabian Peninsula, nearly nine out of every ten residents are foreign noncitizens. Many of these foreigners reside in the cities that have arisen in Qatar and neighboring states. The book provides an overview of the gulf migration system with its diverse migrant experiences. Gardner focuses on the ways that demography and global mobility have shaped the city of Doha and the urban characteristics of the Arabian Peninsula in general. Building on those migrant experiences, the book turns to the spatial politics of the modern Arabian city, exploring who is placed where in the city and how this social landscape came into historical existence. The author reflects on what we might learn from these cities and the societies that inhabit them.

In The Fragmentary City, Andrew M. Gardner frames the contemporary cities of the Arabian Peninsula not as poor imitations of Western urban modernity, but instead as cities on the frontiers of a global, neoliberal, and increasingly urban future.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. 1. Friday Ethnography and the City
  4. 2. Invisible Gas
  5. 3. The Journey to Arabia
  6. 4. The Gulf Migration System
  7. 5. Segregation and Space in the Modernist City
  8. 6. Compounds, Walls, and Cultural Sovereignty
  9. 7. An Urban Spatial Discourse
  10. 8. Ceaseless Growth and the Urban Trophy Case
  11. 9. Culture and Life in a Fragmented City
  12. Conclusion
  13. Postscript
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Index