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Le privilège occidental : travail, intimité et hiérarchies postcoloniales à Dubaï
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ISBN: 2724624327 Year: 2019 Publisher: Paris : Presses de Sciences Po,

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Nul autre lieu que Dubaï, ville-carrefour d'une mondialisation néolibérale, n'incarne mieux les avantages associés à l'occidentalité et à la blanchité. Au travers des récits d'une centaine d'habitants, expatriés ou en contrat local, recueillis par l'auteure, les Occidentaux installés à Dubaï se profilent comme un groupe social à part entière. Ils partagent l'expérience d'être structurellement privilégiés tant sur le marché du travail que dans la sphère intime, même si des hiérarchies de genre, classe, race et sexualité les traversent : tous les titulaires d'un passeport occidental, notamment français, n'en bénéficient pas de la même manière. À Dubaï, l'occidentalité n'est pas seulement mobilisée pour classer, légitimer, regrouper et mettre à distance, elle l'est aussi pour se distinguer des autres élites de la ville globalisée, avec la conviction d'être en avance dans tous les domaines, professionnel, conjugal, familial et domestique. Un regard vif et singulier sur les reconfigurations actuelles de l'hégémonie occidentale.

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Western Privilege : Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai
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ISBN: 1503629244 Year: 2021 Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press,

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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, Amélie 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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Beyond exception
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ISBN: 1501750305 1501750321 1501750313 1501750291 9781501750311 9781501750328 9781501750298 9781501750304 Year: 2020 Publisher: Ithaca

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Over the nearly two decades that they have each been conducting fieldwork in the Arabian Peninsula, Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, and Neha Vora have regularly encountered exoticising and exceptionalist discourses about the region and its people, political systems, and prevalent cultural practices. These persistent encounters became the springboard for this book, a reflection on conducting fieldwork within a 'field' that is marked by such representations. The three focus on deconstructing the exceptionalist representations that circulate about the Arabian Peninsula. They analyse what exceptionalism does, how it is used by various people, and how it helps shape power relations in the societies they study.

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