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Western Privilege - Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai (Paperback)
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Western Privilege - Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai (Paperback)
Series: Worlding the Middle East
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Nearly 90 percent of residents in Dubai are foreigners with no
Emirati nationality. As in many global cities, those who hold
Western passports share specific advantages: prestigious careers,
high salaries, and comfortable homes and lifestyles. With this
book, Amelie Le Renard explores how race, gender and class
backgrounds shape experiences of privilege, and investigates the
processes that lead to the formation of Westerners as a social
group. Westernness is more than a passport; it is also an identity
that requires emotional and bodily labor. And as they work, hook
up, parent, and hire domestic help, Westerners chase Dubai's
promise of socioeconomic elevation for the few. Through an
ethnography informed by postcolonial and feminist theory, Le Renard
reveals the diverse experiences and trajectories of white and
non-white, male and female Westerners to understand the shifting
and contingent nature of Westernness-and also its deep connection
to whiteness and heteronormativity. Western Privilege offers a
singular look at the lived reality of structural racism in cities
of the global South.
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