1st Edition
Participation Culture in the Gulf Networks, Politics and Identity
Part I: Sociopolitical Transformations and Civil Society Engagement
1. New Spaces and Sociabilities are Reshaping Emirati Society, Jane Bristol-Rhys
2. Art, Politics and Social Change in the Gulf, Charlotte Schriwer
3.Unusual Suspects: Sport in the Gulf as an arena of protest and change, James Dorsey
Part II: Untraditional Actors in the Public Political Space
4. Legal Actors and Sociopolitical Change in the Arab Gulf, David Mednicoff
5. Public Property Law in Kuwait and the Popular Movement that Never Started: The 2008 Diwaniyya Demolitions, James C.A.Redman
6. Challenges and Aspirations of the "Post-Oil Nation" in the Sultanate of Oman, Veronika Deffner
Part III: Nation, Identity and Change
7. National Identity in the UAE and Its Capacity for Social Transformation, James Toth
8. Networks Online and Offline: Spaces of Cultural Production in the Gulf, Nele Lenze
9. Urban Iranian Youths as the Pivotal Subjects of Social Movements in Iran, Gi Yeon Koo
Biography
Nele Lenze is a visiting assistant professor at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait. Her research focuses on the cultural online sphere in the Gulf.
Charlotte Schriwer is a historian and art hostorian of the Middle East. Her research focuses on various historical studies of the Levant region.
