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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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
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 ;
136.
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Call Number: D410
- 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.