Dubai, the City as Corporation

Index

INDEX Abdulla, Abdul Khaleq, xii, 5, 9, 56, 238n5; city-corporation concept and, 34, 137, 142, 235n6; critique of UAE (neo)colonial relations, 20, 54–55, 140–41; ethnocracy and, 239n11; neoliberalism and, 159–61, 169 Abu Dhabi, 67, 92, 226n17, 228n4; British presence and, 25, 53–54, 140, 223n3; oil and, 50, 61; urban entrepreneurialism and, 11, 28– 29, 73, 80, 89, 94–95 Al Abbar, Muhammad, 132, 134, 146; Executive Council and, 4, 224n5 Al Gergawi, Muhammad, 4, 134, 141, 146, 224n5 Al Maktoum, Muhammad (bin Rashid), 105, 132–34, 141, 213; Executive Council and, 4, 146; Dubai building boom and, 39; neoliberalism and, 139 Al Maktoum, Rashid (bin Said), 4; British presence and, 25, 51, 144; free trade zones and, 142; infrastructural modernization and, 38–39, 86–87 Al Nahyan, 54, 140; Khalifa (bin Zayed), 122; Zayed (bin Sultan), 25, 40, 49 Arab cities, 9–11, 224n7 Arab (or Bedouin) identity, 119, 133– 34, 144, 168 Bedouin identity. See Arab (or Bedouin) identity Bin Bayyat, Ahmad, 4, 134, 147–49 Bin Sulaym, Sultan Ahmad, 4, 134, 141, 224n5 British presence. See Great Britain Building Towers, Cheating Workers (Human Rights Watch), 43, 95, 229n13 Burj Dubai. See EMAAR Burj Khalifa. See EMAAR city-corporation. See Abdulla, Abdul Khaleq construction workers. See migrant workers demographics, 184–85, 226n20 discourse of sustainability. See sustainability domestics, 63–64, 130, 188, 201–4, INDEX 260 2291n14; See also migrant workers Dubai Executive Council. See Executive Council Dubai Holding, 4, 40, 141, 224n5, 235n5 Dubailand, 40, 184, 224n5 Dubai National Front, 52–53, 120, 159–60 Dubai World, 4, 40, 141, 224n5, 235n5 EMAAR, 77, 146, 238n10; Burj Dubai/Khalifa and, 40–41, 166, 185, 224n5; Muhammad (bin Rashid) Al Maktoum and, 141, 224n5, 234n5; New Dubai and, 4, 38, 40, 185 entrepôt economy, 4, 39, 56–60, 65– 66, 181; discourses of illegality and, 65–67, 74; protection and, 24, 45–48; merchants and, 59–60; post-oil era and, 55–58. See also ḥawāla, smuggling ethnicity, 145, 151–52, 235n9, 239n11; construction of Emirati-Arab, 119–20, 181; discrimination and, 36, 175; ethnocracy and, 15, 30–31, 37, 105, 176–77; gender and, 129–30; neoliberalism and, 35, 160; ruling family hegemony and, 27, 47–48, 60 expatriates, x, 182–204, 233–34n1; cultural threats and, 37; exclusion and, 16; Emirati perceptions of, 42, 48, 121–22; migrant workers and, 44, 62, 176, 227n24; South Asian, 35–38. See also South Asia and South Asians Executive Council, 140, 141–42; emergence of, 54; role in Dubai urbanism, 4 family corporation, 141–42, 234–35n3 flexible citizenship. See neoliberalism free-trade zones, 142. See also entrepôt economy Friedman, Thomas, xii, 3–5, 56, 198 Gehry, Frank, 89, 90, 94, 101, 233n15 global city(-ies), 7–8, 42, 76, 94, 131 globalization, 93–94, 155; architecture and, 6, 102–03; Emirati– expatriate relations and, 61–62, 65; neoliberalism and, 198–201; urbanism and, 7–8, 137 Gergawi, Muhammad. See Al Gergawi, Muhammad Great Britain, 86–87; expatriates from, 185; Indian Ocean empire and, 181–82, 236–37n6; protection of Al Maktoum and, 50–53, 116–17, 169 Hadid, Zaha, 28, 84–85, 101 Harris, John, 86–88, 93, 97, 232n10 Harvey, David, 14, 20–21, 172, 232n3 ḥawāla, 60, 66, 229n9. See also entrepôt economy Human Rights Watch. See Building Towers, Cheating Workers Investment Corporation of Dubai, 4, 134, 141 Islam, 156, 159, 228n4; Rem Koolhaas and, 211; conservative discourse on, 128–29, 236n20 Jameson, Fredric, 17–18, 20, 225– 26n14, 232n3 Koolhaas, Rem, 42, 100, 101–03, 205, 227n25; Critical Theory and, 82–83; Generic City and, 5–6, 82, 91, 233n17; Nakheel Waterfront City and, 5, 41, 80–82, 84, 184; INDEX 261 2009 Sharjah Biennial Lecture of, 208–16 Kracauer, Siegfried, 13–14, 17–20, 112 Lefebvre, Henri, 78, 232n3; critique of everyday life and, 101; critique of capitalist urbanism and, 4, 28, 83, 90–91; representations of space and, 17, 18–22, 68; right to the city and, 226n16 Maktoum. See Al Maktoum Masdar (Norman Foster project), 95– 96, 233n20 merchants, 86, 119–120, 180–82; Indian, 46, 58; Persian, 24, 58; reformist movements and, 25, 226–27n21; pearl trade and, 50; political position of, 46–47; ruler’s protection of, 57–58; ruling bargain and, 26, 47, 54 migrant workers, 44, 214–16; contracts , labor agents, and, 44, 62, 203; Dubai...