Geoff Harkness, "Changing Qatar: Culture, Citizenship, and Rapid Modernization" (NYU Press, 2020)
New Books in Anthropology
Changing Qatar Culture Citizenship and Rapid Modernization
Jeffrey Toobin's book Changing Qatar Culture Citizenship and Rapid Modernization will be published by the New York University Press in 2020. Most of the books that I read about Qatar were written by political scientists or historians. Those were invaluable perspectives and really helped me to understand the country itself but sometimes offer kind of a 30,000 foot perspective so the sort of very big picture. In terms of the book itself and its contemporary relevance I think that cities like Doha may offer some glimpse of the future. These sort of very modern very highly technologically proficient air conditioned cities that serve as playgrounds for wealthy elites but that are run largely by low paid servant class workers. So you know in some ways it
