Bedouins into Bourgeois

Name: Bedouins into Bourgeois
Author: Calvert Jones

Remaking Citizens for Globalization

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Gebonden, 262 blz. | Engels

Cambridge University Press | 1e druk, 2017

ISBN13: 9781107175723

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Hoofdrubriek : Economie

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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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ISBN13:9781107175723

Trefwoorden:globalisering

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:gebonden

Aantal pagina's:262

Uitgever:Cambridge University Press

Druk:1

Verschijningsdatum:1-6-2017

Hoofdrubriek:Economie

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Introduction

1. Rethinking the making of citizens
2. Seeing like a Sheikh
3. Enlightenment under autocracy
4. Symbolism, spectacle, and the shaping of the post-petroleum citizen
5. From enlightenment to entitlement: intended and unintended outcomes of social engineering
6. Explaining the paradox of the entitled patriot
7. Conclusion

Appendix A: ethnography, interviews, and focus groups
Appendix B: survey evidence