Vol. 7 No. 028 (2019): Issue 028

غلاف العدد 28 من دورية عمران

Issue 28 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Spring 2019) includes the following studies and articles: “Transformations of Manama: Equations of Demography, Islamization and Commercialization” (Nader Kadhim); “The New Gulf Urban: Test Beds, Work-arounds, and the Limits of Enacted Cities” (Harvey Molotch, Davide Ponzini); “A Primer to Social Conflict in Kuwait: Voting on Economic Legislation in the Kuwaiti National Assembly 2006-2012” (Luai Ali); “Social Networks and Communication Culture in Hybrid Societies: A Reading in the Role of Twitter in Qatar” (Ahmed Atyq); “A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation” (William H. Sewell, Jr); “Modernism in the Arabian Gulf: Transformations of Society and the State” (Abdou Moussa); “Bedouins into Bourgeois: Remaking Citizens for Globalization” (Courtney Freer); “Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East” (Courtney Freer); “Exporting Wealth and Entrenching Alienation: A History of Productive Imbalance in the Gulf States” (Baqer Alnajjar).

Published: 2019-04-01

Special Dossier

  • Transformations of Manama: Equations of Demography, Islamization and Commercialization

    Author: Nader Kadhim (Author)
    7-33

    This study explores how many factors, beginning with the recession of the pearl trade and the discovery of oil to the oil boom since the mid-1970s, contributed to the rapid urbanization of the...

  • The New Gulf Urban: Test Beds, Work-arounds, and the Limits of Enacted Cities

    Author: Harvey Molotch, Davide Ponzini (Author)
    35-56

    Cities of the Persian Gulf have been stereotypically depicted as exceptional and futuristic. Against such celebrations, Orientalist claims stress socio-political backwardness and inequalities,...

  • A Primer to Social Conflict in Kuwait: Voting on Economic Legislation in the Kuwaiti National Assembly 2006-2012

    Author: Luai Ali (Author)
    57-87

    This study unpacks social conflict in Kuwait using voting on economic legislation in the national assembly as an example. The paper is premised on a critique of rentier state theory and theories...

  • Social Networks and Communication Culture in Hybrid Societies: A Reading in the Role of Twitter in Qatar

    Author: Ahmed Atyq (Author)
    89-113

    This study explores the profound impact of the transformation of the public communication space in Qatar in the era of digitization and social networking, and its role in changing the culture of...

Translation

  • A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation

    Author: William H. Sewell (Author)
    117-146

    “Structure” is one of the most important, elusive, and undertheorized concepts in the social sciences. Setting out from a critique and reformulation of Anthony Giddens’s notion of the duality of...

Book Reviews

  • Modernism in the Arabian Gulf: Transformations of Society and the State

    Author: Abdou Moussa (Author)
    149-159

    Book Title: Modernism in the Arabian Gulf: Transformations of Society and the State. Author: Baqer Salman Alnajjar. Publisher: Dar Al Saqi. Date of Publication: 2018. Number of pages: 506.

  • Bedouins into Bourgeois: Remaking Citizens for Globalization

    Author: Courtney Freer (Author)
    161-166

    Book Title: Bedouins into Bourgeois: Remaking Citizens for Globalization . Author: Calvert Jones. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Date of Publication: 2017.

  • Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East

    Author: Courtney Freer (Author)
    167-173

    Book Title: Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East . Author: Adam Hanieh. Publisher: Cambridge University Press....

  • Exporting Wealth and Entrenching Alienation: A History of Productive Imbalance in the Gulf States

    Author: Baqer Alnajjar (Author)
    175-179

    Book Title: Exporting Wealth and Entrenching Alienation: A History of Productive Imbalance in the Gulf States. Author: Omar Hisham El Shehabi,. Publisher: Center for Arab Unity Studies, Beirut....