Social Change In The Gulf Region

Author : Md Mizanur Rahman,Amr Al-Azm
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811977961

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Social Change in the Gulf Region by Md Mizanur Rahman,Amr Al-Azm Pdf

This open access book, comprising thirty-nine chapters divided into social, cultural, economic, and political spheres, offers a unique opportunity to dive into the complex, dynamic, and sometimes contradictory transformation of Gulf societies in the last few decades. Whilst the Gulf region has at times been seen as impervious to this natural phenomenon of transformation—timeless, never changing, deeply rooted in its ancient tribal customs and traditions and able to blend past and present seamlessly without suffering the wrenching trauma of change—this is clearly not the case, and the region is not immune to the inevitable forces of social change. There is no doubt today that the social change sweeping the Gulf has been profound, affecting almost every aspect of life in the Gulf societies. This volume has an encyclopedic value as the chapters collectively offer multifaceted and multidisciplinary perspectives to understand social change in the Gulf region. Through these chapters, the role of economic and educational transformation, and the impact of social media, migration, and urbanization have in driving social change in the Gulf societies is examined in detail with a focus on their directions, magnitudes, and relevant policy options. It also considers how COVID-19 is affecting the lives of the people in the Gulf. This book bridges gaps in the understanding of the rapid pace of social change in the Gulf, offering practical solutions for policy interventions. It is of interest to scholars and students in Middle Eastern studies, specifically, as well as sociology, media studies, migration studies, and educational policy.

Author : Jennifer E. Lansford,Anis Ben Brik,Abdallah M. Badahdah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000175929

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Families and Social Change in the Gulf Region by Jennifer E. Lansford,Anis Ben Brik,Abdallah M. Badahdah Pdf

This timely volume explores the impact of dramatic social change that has disrupted established patterns of family life and human development in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council. It addresses several major deficits in knowledge regarding family issues in the Gulf countries, bringing a critical perspective to the emerging challenges facing families in this region. Lansford, Ben Brik, and Badahdah examine the role of urbanization, educational progress, emigration, globalization, and changes in the status of women on social change, as well as tackling issues related to marriage, fertility and parenthood, and family well-being. This book explores how family relationships and social policies can promote physical health, psychological well-being, social relationships, safety, cognitive development, and economic security in the Gulf countries, placing a unique emphasis on contemporary families in this region. Families and Social Change in the Gulf Region is essential reading for scholars from psychology, sociology, education, law, and public policy. It will also be of interest to graduate students in these disciplines.

Author : John W. Fox,Nada Mourtada-Sabbah,Mohammed Al Mutawa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135988272

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Globalization and the Gulf by John W. Fox,Nada Mourtada-Sabbah,Mohammed Al Mutawa Pdf

For centuries, the Arabian Gulf has been a crossroads where seafaring people and Bedouins alike travelled great distances transacting business. Events of the past few years, both good and bad, have directed the world’s attention to the Arabian Peninsula, where a rich cultural tradition is rapidly incorporating the latest innovations from around the world. This is the process of globalization. New economies create enormous potential, but it will require great care for the people of the region to steer through a period of profound change. Political and economic interests intent on maintaining the flow of petroleum products on one hand, and people in the Gulf region who assess their won interests from quite a different perspective, on the other, exert pressures from conflicting directions. Reconciling these interests in a time of rapid globalization poses enormous challenges. This timely volume brings together the work of scholars from both the Middle East and the West who have the expertise to evaluate the interaction of new ideas, new technologies and new economies. Brought together by the American University of Sharjah and the Sociological Association of the UAE, the contributors reflect on both the process of globalism and on the traditions of Gulf society and culture, offering views on how these trends interact within the global system.

Author : The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research
Publisher : Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-04
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Arabian Gulf Between Conservatism and Change by The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research Pdf

Since the beginning of the 21st century the Gulf region has been faced political and security-related changes and socio-economic transformations that have placed enormous pressure on the Gulf countries, threatened their internal stability and, ultimately, left them with two options: either continue to follow previous methods and policies, or radically change methods, policies and institutions in order to preserve these countries’ existence and further progress and development. The Gulf countries have attempted to respond to these changes and challenges by perpetuating their old values, policies and institutions by amending and improving them as part of a gradualist approach. However, this approach has not bridged the wide gap between the realities of modern Gulf societies and their aspirations to establish development policies and popular and democratic participation, reform their development models and economic structures; improve educational systems, strengthen social building, enhance cultural movement, and empower women in public life. This book – which comprises the papers presented in the sessions of the 13th ECSSR Annual Conference convened between March 31 and April 2, 2008 – discusses the issue of continuity and change in the Gulf region, which is considered both one of the most vital and most problematic current challenges in the region. The book addresses the points of difference and aspects of contradiction that have emerged in a wide sphere among the Gulf countries between conservative and reformist trends in the political, economic, social, cultural, and educational domains.

Author : Jennifer E. Lansford,Anis Ben Brik,Abdallah M. Badahdah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000175967

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Families and Social Change in the Gulf Region by Jennifer E. Lansford,Anis Ben Brik,Abdallah M. Badahdah Pdf

This timely volume explores the impact of dramatic social change that has disrupted established patterns of family life and human development in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council. It addresses several major deficits in knowledge regarding family issues in the Gulf countries, bringing a critical perspective to the emerging challenges facing families in this region. Lansford, Ben Brik, and Badahdah examine the role of urbanization, educational progress, emigration, globalization, and changes in the status of women on social change, as well as tackling issues related to marriage, fertility and parenthood, and family well-being. This book explores how family relationships and social policies can promote physical health, psychological well-being, social relationships, safety, cognitive development, and economic security in the Gulf countries, placing a unique emphasis on contemporary families in this region. Families and Social Change in the Gulf Region is essential reading for scholars from psychology, sociology, education, law, and public policy. It will also be of interest to graduate students in these disciplines.

Author : Magdalena Karolak,Nermin Allam
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811515293

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Gulf Cooperation Council Culture and Identities in the New Millennium by Magdalena Karolak,Nermin Allam Pdf

The book analyzes recent changes to the identities and cultures of the GCC countries. These important transformations have gone largely unnoticed due to the fast-paced changes in the region that affect all aspects of society. The volume unpacks these transformations by looking from a holistic perspective at the intersections of language, arts, education, political culture, city, regional alliances and transnational identities. It offers selected case studies based on original research carried out in the region. Chapter 7, ‘Identity Lost & Found: Architecture and Identity Formation in Kuwait and the Gulf’, of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

Author : Jacqueline S. Ismael
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015005477677

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Kuwait, Social Change in Historical Perspective by Jacqueline S. Ismael Pdf

Author : David Held,Kristian Ulrichsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136698392

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The Transformation of the Gulf by David Held,Kristian Ulrichsen Pdf

This book examines the political, economic and social transformation of the six member-states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the ways in which these states are both shaping, and being reshaped by, the processes of globalisation. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the volume combines thematic chapters focusing on issues such as globalisation, nationalism and identity, political thinking, and economic diversification and redistributive policymaking with empirical chapters studying specific aspects of reform and change: the emergence of governing markets the rise of Sovereign Wealth Funds Islamic Finance the relationship between energy and sustainability trends in foreign aid donorship, strategic and foreign policy formulation. Contributions from experts in the field provide cutting-edge snapshots of a region in flux and collectively offer a roadmap of its repositioning in the global order, examining the interaction between global processes and internal dynamics of change and resistance that inject new dimensions into debates over the loci of local and global transformations and the manner in which each plays off the other. Situating the Gulf States firmly within their global twenty-first century context, this book will hold particular appeal to theorists of globalisation as well as to scholars of comparative politics, international political economy and area studies.

Author : Nele Lenze,Charlotte Schriwer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351061681

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Participation Culture in the Gulf by Nele Lenze,Charlotte Schriwer Pdf

This book examines the civil–social interactions which have shaped and continue to influence the political and social development of modern Gulf societies. It analyses the influence of public and private social spaces, such as sports arenas and dawawin as well as developments in the legal and cultural spheres. Geographically, the volume covers Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Each chapter discusses a different aspect of current trends in society, offering a multidimensional perspective on recent developments. In so doing, the chapters highlight the existence of a growing participation culture as a force for dynamic social change in a global context. Bringing to attention the continuing social change in public and private spaces, which have increased public social interactions within the last ten years, this books also demonstrates the opening of dialogues between the public and the authorities. The contributors are established scholars living in the Gulf, as well as academics with long-term field research in the region, thus providing unique perspectives on current sociopolitical trends in the Gulf states. Participation Culture in the Gulf will be useful to students and scholars of Middle Eastern politics and society, as well as social movements and political participation more generally.

Author : A. K. Ramakrishnan,M. H. Ilias
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 8177082752

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Society and Change in the Contemporary Gulf by A. K. Ramakrishnan,M. H. Ilias Pdf

This selection of essays addresses the general aspects of social change in the Gulf on the one hand and the specific contours of transformation in different milieus of the region on the other. The volume goes beyond the paradigms of security and rentier state to capture state-society linkages, women's role in knowledge economy and social reforms, the directions of democratisation, changing dynamics of cities like Dubai, the interplay of sacred and secular in the Gulf. It shows the multi-layered manner in which Arab societies of the Gulf have responded to the phenomenon of globalisation. The interconnectedness of political and economic dynamics and social change is brought forth in the volume by locating specific spaces, issues and moments of such transformation. Scholars from diverse disciplinary vantage points provide the reader with a multi-dimensional perspective of the societies in the Gulf.

Author : Arno Tausch
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030782993

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The Future of the Gulf Region by Arno Tausch Pdf

This book studies values and attitudes in the Gulf region. In light of global power shifts, the threatening collapse of internal security in the West, and uncertainty about the current leadership vacuum in world society, this book explores a future leading role of the Gulf countries in such institutions as the G-20 and the OECD. Based on rigorous analysis of macro-level data and opinion surveys with relevance for the Gulf region, it analyzes the global macro-factors shaping the Gulf's future at a time of the global COVID-19 crisis and depression and rising global tensions. Starting with an empirical time series analysis of the long cycles of global politics and economics, it highlights the implications for the Gulf region. Offering a multivariate analysis of civil society values in the Gulf, the author analyzes value changes and attitudes on antisemitism, political Islam, internal security, democracy, and other issues of Arab politics. The partially optimistic conclusions of the study testify to the underestimated and incipient maturity of the Gulf’s civil society and strongly suggest that the Gulf's future is rather with the free societies of the West and not with a Neo-Ottoman Empire in whatever form. "Exceptional in scope and right up-to-the-minute in coverage" Brian M Pollins, Associate, Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State University. "An outstanding and topical book by an astute scholar of the MENA region" Professor Hussein Solomon, Academic Head of Department, Political Studies and Governance, University of the Free State, South Africa. "The most comprehensive and insightful study on the subject to date" Manfred B. Steger, Professor of Sociology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa and Global Professorial Fellow, Western Sydney University.

Author : N. Janardhan
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 086372373X

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Boom Amid Gloom by N. Janardhan Pdf

Five years of oil boom between 2003 and 2008 ushered an unparalleled sense of hope in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The prevailing mood was that it would be possible to develop and implement visions of transformative and far-reaching change. This book explores issues set to shap the future of GCC countries in coming decades.

Author : Shirin J. A. Shukri
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Middle East
ISBN : UVA:X004295007

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Social Changes and Women in the Middle East by Shirin J. A. Shukri Pdf

This is a study of social change in the Middle East and Gulf area which examines specifically the impact on women's role and status, their responses to change and their involvement in its processes. Gender constructions during periods of political and social change are discussed. The changing and variable status of women in the Middle East is examined comparatively, emphasising the factors that best explain the differences in women's status accross the region and over time. The study is interdisciplinary covering economic development, industrialization, ethnic and gender issues, social structure and education, politics and state policy.

Author : The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research
Publisher : Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9948140125

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The Arabian Gulf by The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research Pdf

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, political, economic and security-related changes have exerted tremendous pressure on the countries of the Gulf states. The countries have attempted to respond to such challenges by retaining their values, policies and institutions while preferring an incremental approach to change. This book seeks to tackle the many controversial and contradictory issues that have emerged within Gulf countries between traditional and modernist approaches to political, economic, social, cultural and educational change. It also examines the substantial gap that remains between the reality and aspirations of the Gulf in relation to: consolidated political development; the adoption of popular participation and elements of democracy; improved developmental models, economic structures and education systems; reinforced social structures; enhanced cultural dynamism; and the empowerment of women in public life.

Author : A. Abdelkarim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230376007

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Change and Development in the Gulf by A. Abdelkarim Pdf

Processes of change, stagnation and development in the countries of the Gulf Co-operation Council are analyzed in this book. The contributors show impact of oil revenues on population change and social development and on redefining the socio-economic role of the state. Oil could open venues for industrialization and development. However, lack of population policies, problems of human resources development, the rather slow change in gender relations and in political systems and heavy spending on militarization, it is argued, could impede development endeavour.