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Nationalism and Nationhood in the United Arab Emirates

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Authors:
  1. Martin Ledstrup

    1. Institute of History, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

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  • Conceptualizes nationhood and nationalism in one of the most powerful and economically trendsetting countries in the Middle East
  • Analyzes the rise of modern nationhood in the Arab Gulf comparing and contrasting the countries in the region
  • Explores nationalism studies through the textual universe of Georg Simmel, a major classic of European sociologist

Part of the book series: The Modern Muslim World (MMUS)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Everyday Modernity: An Introduction

    • Martin Ledstrup
    Pages 1-17

  3. Nationhood, Modernity, and the Everyday

    • Martin Ledstrup
    Pages 19-42

  4. On the Road: National Form and the Globalizing Everyday

    • Martin Ledstrup
    Pages 43-61

  5. Strangers in the Nation: Nearness, Distance, and the Everyday

    • Martin Ledstrup
    Pages 63-88

  6. The National and the Fashionable: Everyday Nationhood as Dress

    • Martin Ledstrup
    Pages 89-108

  7. Epilogue

    • Martin Ledstrup
    Pages 109-113

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 115-118
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About this book

This book shows how an encounter with everyday nationhood in the northern United Arab Emirates can make us revisit the classics of sociology as continuous analytical world-views. Through the textual universe of Georg Simmel, and in particular his analysis of modern life as the feeling of dualism, the project reflects about how seemingly crucial challenges to the national – the forces of globalization and the wish to be unique – are drawn together with the formation of nationhood in everyday life. It does so not least by attending to the instances of everyday nationhood – like fashion and car-driving – that are at the same time central ways of embodying the modern. This volume appeals to students of nationalism, classical sociology, and the modern Arab Gulf.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of History, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    Martin Ledstrup

About the author

Martin Ledstrup is Researcher in the Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

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