Geoff Harkness, "Changing Qatar: Culture, Citizenship, and Rapid Modernization" (NYU Press, 2020)
New Books in Anthropology
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Petro Families in the Oil Rich Gulf Region
Petro families are often cutlery or arabian gulf families whose members were born between 1971 and 2015. These are the direct beneficiaries of the hydrocarbon wealth from these oil rich gulf nations. They tend to be educated they tend to be globally situated so they don't just live in one place you know move to from place to place following the sort of oil industry in the oil wealth. The young people who are tasked with transforming cutter and these other nations into these sort of modern hubs for business and leisure, entertainment and trade and commerce.
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