Market Orientalism: Cultural Economy and the Arab Gulf States

by Benjamin Smith and Benjamin Smith

Book Overview

Although the Arab states of the Persian Gulf are leaders in many of the measures of absolute wealth that have traditionally defined success in the global economy, they have had a much harder time becoming accepted in the equally fractured and hierarchal realm of the cultural economy, where practices, signs, and perceptions of propriety matter.

Market Orientalism examines how emerging markets are imagined as cultural economic spaces--spaces...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815635222
• ISBN13: 9780815635222
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.7"