Western Privilege - Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai

Informationen zum Autor Amélie (Saba) Le Renard is Permanent Researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research, Centre Maurice Halbwachs, Paris. They are the author of A Society of Young Women: Opportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi Arabia (Stanford, 2014). Klappentext "A previous version of this work was published in French in 2019 under the title Le priviláege occidental: travail, intimitâe et hiâerarchies postcoloniales áa Dubaèi." Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Construction of Skills 2. Structural Advantages in the Job Market 3. Performing Stereotypical Westernness 4. The Heteronormativity of "Guest Families" 5. Relations with Domestic Employees 6. Hedonistic Lifestyles 7. Western Privilege and White Privilege Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Amelie Le Renard, Amélie Le Renard
• Assisted by: Jane Kuntz (Translation)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781503629233
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-2923-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Worlding the Middle East
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories