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Joyriding in Riyadh: Oil, Urbanism, and Road Revolt [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 263 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 220x153x14 mm, weight: 370 g, 4 Maps; 21 Halftones, unspecified; 3 Line drawings, unspecified
  • Serija: Cambridge Middle East Studies
  • Išleidimo metai: 21-Apr-2014
  • Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1107641950
  • ISBN-13: 9781107641952
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 263 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 220x153x14 mm, weight: 370 g, 4 Maps; 21 Halftones, unspecified; 3 Line drawings, unspecified
  • Serija: Cambridge Middle East Studies
  • Išleidimo metai: 21-Apr-2014
  • Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1107641950
  • ISBN-13: 9781107641952
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Why do young Saudis, night after night, joyride and skid cars on Riyadh's avenues? Who are those “drifters” who defy public order and private property? Based on four years of fieldwork, Joyriding in Riyadh explores the history and social fabric of Riyadh, as well as that of Saudi Arabia. For young rural migrants, car drifting is a way to reclaim threatening urban spaces. It is now the target of a nationwide police crackdown. The book shows that, far from being a marginal event, car drifting is embedded in Saudi Arabia's social violence and economic inequality.

Why do young Saudis, night after night, joyride and skid cars on Riyadh's avenues? Who are these “drifters” who defy public order and private property? What drives their revolt? Based on four years of fieldwork in Riyadh, Pascal Menoret's Joyriding in Riyadh explores the social fabric of the city and connects it to Saudi Arabia's recent history. Car drifting emerged after Riyadh was planned, and oil became the main driver of the economy. For young rural migrants, it was a way to reclaim alienating and threatening urban spaces. For the Saudi state, it jeopardized its most basic operations: managing public spaces and enforcing law and order. A police crackdown soon targeted car drifting, feeding a nationwide moral panic led by religious activists who framed youth culture as a public issue. The book retraces the politicization of Riyadh youth and shows that, far from being a marginal event, car drifting is embedded in the country's social violence and economic inequality.

Recenzijos

'Good anthropologists aim to enter into the minds of their subjects, sharing their lifestyle, acquiring their language, studying their moods and responses but always maintaining an objective self-awareness. Pascal Menoret is better than good.' The Economist 'An excellent ethnography of youth culture in Saudi Arabia that unpacks the connections between the social practice of joyriding as a form of political dissent with the questions of oil, urbanism, and power. It provides new insight into the categories of masculinity and gender in the Middle Eastern context and the spatial politics of the Saudi state. This work contributes to a growing body of critical scholarship Joyriding in Riyadh is an excellent and scholarly work that makes a valuable contribution to the field of Middle East Studies. It will appeal to anyone that has an interest in youth culture, urban and gender studies, urban history, and anthropology of the Middle East. Moreover, the book can be assigned to classes on Middle Eastern politics, Arab Uprisings, or any course that deals with the issues of social violence and economic inequality in a comparative or global framework.' Feras Klenk, Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online 'Menoret has written one of the best books on contemporary Saudi Arabia. I applaud the author's bravery in undertaking fieldwork among violent, repressed, and disenfranchised young men in the kingdom during the years of the War on Terror. He elegantly combines an intimate portrayal of Saudi male youth culture with a profound analysis of the national and global networks of government, business, and expertise that gave rise to joyriding.' Jörg Matthias Determann, The American Historical Review 'This is an insightful, important and unique book. It is extremely readable and will be accessible to students of all levels, as well as others inside and outside academia with an interest in the Gulf, urban history and politics, and gender and sexuality in the Middle East.' Michael Farquhar, LSE Middle East Centre Blog (blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec)

Daugiau informacijos

Winner of British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize 2015. Joint winner of Economist Book of the Year 2014.Based on four years of fieldwork, Joyriding in Riyadh explores the history and social fabric of Riyadh, and of Saudi Arabia, through youth culture, specifically joyriding.
Figures
xi
Maps
xiii
1 A Night with `Ajib
1(20)
1.1 Joyriding in Riyadh
2(3)
1.2 Cars and Road Violence
5(4)
1.3 The Emergence of a Plebeian Public Sphere
9(3)
1.4 Reflexive Anthropology and the War on Terror
12(4)
1.5 Saudi Youth and the Politics of Representation
16(3)
1.6 Plan of the Book
19(2)
2 Repression and Fieldwork
21(40)
2.1 In the Steppes of Upper Najd
23(4)
2.2 Loyalists, Islamists, and Jihadists
27(5)
2.3 Down and Out in Najd
32(5)
2.4 Activism and Frustration
37(7)
2.5 Surveillance and Repression
44(9)
2.6 Violence and Fun
53(8)
3 City of the Future
61(41)
3.1 Saudi Suburbia
61(6)
3.2 Doxiadis and Containment Urbanism
67(7)
3.3 Bedouin Removal
74(8)
3.4 Mobility and Slums
82(5)
3.5 Land Is Political
87(7)
3.6 "Mecca-Oriented Roads"
94(8)
4 The Business of Development
102(31)
4.1 Parking Crisis in Sulaymaniyya
102(3)
4.2 The Urban Consequences of the Oil Boom
105(9)
4.3 The Saudi Exception
114(5)
4.4 "The Inhumanity of the Place"
119(5)
4.5 "You Don't Need to Innovate"
124(4)
4.6 Urban Space, Contentious Space
128(5)
5 Street Terrorism
133(41)
5.1 Public Disorder
133(7)
5.2 Joyriding and Social Suffering
140(7)
5.3 The Story of Joyriding
147(5)
5.4 "If You Have a Lexus, You Are a Lexus"
152(7)
5.5 Reclaiming Urban Interstices
159(4)
5.6 "Sexy Boys Compete for You"
163(11)
6 Street Politics
174(33)
6.1 The Death of Sharari
174(3)
6.2 "Either Death or Repentance"
177(5)
6.3 A State Sociology of Joyriding
182(4)
6.4 Moral Panic
186(6)
6.5 Criminologists and Policemen
192(6)
6.6 "Camry Plays, Police Puke"
198(9)
Epilogue 207(4)
Notes 211(20)
Bibliography 231(10)
Photo Credits 241(2)
Index 243
Pascal Menoret is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at New York University, Abu Dhabi. His research combines urban history and social anthropology. His publications include The Saudi Enigma: A History (2005) and L'Arabie, des routes de l'encens ą l'čre du pétrole (2010).