Dubai, the City as Corporation

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DUBAI, THE CIT Y AS CORPORATION This page intentionally left blank Ahmed Kanna University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis • London DUBAI THE CITY AS CORPORATION M IN NE SO TA A version of chapter 2 will appear as “Urbanist Ideology and the Production of Space in the UAE: An Anthropological Critique,” in Global Downtowns, ed. Marina Peterson and Gary McDonogh (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming). A version of chapter 4 appeared previously as “Flexible Citizenship in Dubai: Neoliberal Subjectivity in the Emerging ‘City-Corporation,’” Cultural Anthropology 25, no. 1 (February 2010). All photographs are reproduced courtesy of the author unless otherwise credited. Every effort was made to obtain permission to reproduce material in this book. If any proper acknowledgment has not been included here, we encourage copyright holders to notify the publisher. Copyright 2011 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kanna, Ahmed. Dubai, the city as corporation / Ahmed Kanna. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8166-5630-1 (hc : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8166-5631-8 (pb : alk. paper) 1. Cities and towns—United Arab Emirates—Dubai. 2. Cities and towns— Growth. 3. Cities and towns—Social aspects—United Arab Emirates—Dubai. 4. Rural development—United Arab Emirates—Dubai. I. Title. HT147.5.K36 2011 307.76095357—dc22 2010032642 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Ines This page intentionally left blank ...