Screen LibraryRegionalizing Oman : political, economic and social dynamics /
This volume addresses the historical structures and current dynamics of Oman's regionalization processes and their political, economic and social dimensions. It is based on an interdisciplinary and trans-regional dialogue between scholars from different social sciences and area studies such as...
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Springer Science+Business Media,
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| Publisher Address: | Dordrecht : |
| Publication Dates: | c2013. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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United Nations University series on regionalism ;
v. 6 |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6821-5 |
| Summary: |
This volume addresses the historical structures and current dynamics of Oman's regionalization processes and their political, economic and social dimensions. It is based on an interdisciplinary and trans-regional dialogue between scholars from different social sciences and area studies such as political science, economics, management, economic and social geography, history, social anthropology and linguistics as well as Middle East/West Asian, gulf and African studies, and develops four major axes of research: Oman's integration into global and regional flows of goods, capital, people and ideas; the multi-scaled political negotiation of such integration (or disintegration) processes; consequences of suchlike processes and forms of regionalization for (translocal) actors; ideas and strategic communication of regional belonging and the constitution of regions. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xi, 351 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789400768215 (electronic bk.) 9400768214 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | JQ1843 |
| CLC: | D838.82 |
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"Regionalizing Oman": A New Interest of Research on Oman and Its Spatial Dimensions / Concepts of Regionalisation and Region-Building. Conceptual Considerations of "Space" and "Region": Political, Economic and Social Dynamics of Region-Building / Theorizing Regionalism(s): When "Regions" Emerge and Interact / Working with "Translocality": Conceptual Implications and Analytical Consequences / The Translocal, Transnational and Transregional Movement of People. "We Are Part of Zanzibar" - Translocal Practices and Imaginative Geographies in Contemporary Oman-Zanzibar Relations / Of Red Cells, Translocality and Origins: Inherited Blood Disorders in Oman / Oman-India Relations: Exploring the Long-Term Migration Dynamics / Negotiating Authenticity and Translocality in Oman: The "Desertscapes" of the Harasiis Tribe / Micro and Macro Regionalisation Through Economic Practices. Re-reading the Role of Oman Within Its International Trade Relations: From the Sixteenth Through to the Nineteenth Centuries / Oman and the Indian Ocean Rim - Economic Integration Across Conventional Meta-Regions / Oman Caught Between the GCC Customs Union and Bilateral Free Trade with the US: Is It Worth Breaking the Rules? / Musandam and Its Trade with Iran. Regional Linkages Across the Strait of Hormuz / Is Littoralization Reconfiguring the Omani Territory? / The Impact of Shopping Malls on Traditional Retail Stores in Muscat. Case Study of Al-Seeb Wilayat / State and Society in Regional and Global Perspectives. Private Documents as a Source for Regional History: The Archive of the ʻAbrīyīn of Al-Ḥamrā' / Domesticating Loca |