Saudi Arabia's Urban Revolution : Oil Urbanization and Protest in al-Ahsaʾ/ the Eastern Province /
This book discusses popular contention in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province (until 1952 the governorate of al-Ahsaʾ) under the aegis of petro-capitalism. The notion of urban revolution takes on a double meaning, namely the rapid urbanisation which broke with the region's urban past and destr...
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Leiden ; Boston :
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2025.
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Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia ;
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |t Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- List of Figures and Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1 The Power of Oil -- 2 Oil Histories -- 3 A Word on Sources -- 4 Outline of the Book -- 2 Society and Politics before Oil -- 1 The Two Oases -- 2 The New Saudi State -- 3 Some Thoughts on Sectarianism -- 3 The Emergent Oil Conurbation -- 1 Labor Camps, Boom Towns and Hinterlands -- 2 Conflicts Over Land and Expropriation -- 3 Changing Social Geographies -- 4 Control and Surveillance -- 4 Popular Politics on the Oil Frontier -- 1 The Saudi Labor Struggle -- 2 Contested Frontiers - a Politicization of Space -- 5 Urban Revolution -- 1 Ambivalent Urbanities -- 2 Urban Struggle and Repression -- 6 Fractured Cities -- 1 The Old Polities -- 2 A New Urban Reality under the Aegis of Petro-Capitalism -- 3 How the Urban Revolution Unfolds -- 4 Alliances between Labor and Urban Classes -- 5 Social Malaise -- 6 Sectarianization as Counter-Revolution -- 7 Rural Rebellion -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index. | |
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