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Regionalizing Oman Political, Economic and Social Dynamics /

This volume addresses the historical structures and current dynamics of Omans 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 polit...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Wippel, Steffen. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:United Nations University Series on Regionalism ; 6
Subjects:
Social sciences.
Regional planning.
Anthropology.
Social Sciences.
Political Science, general.
Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.
Linguistics (general).
Social Sciences, general.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6821-5
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Fred Scholz
  • Chapter 1. ''Regionalizing Oman'': A New Interest of Research on Oman and its Spatial Dimensions; Steffen Wippel
  • Part I: Concepts of Regionalisation and Region-Building
  • Chapter 2. Conceptual Considerations of Space and Region : Political, Economic and Social Dynamics of Region-Building
  • Steffen Wippel
  • Chapter 3. Theorizing Regionalism(s): When Regions Emerge and Interact; Ulrike Lorenz  and Frank Mattheis
  • Chapter 4. Working with Translocality : Conceptual Implications and Analytical Consequences; Katrin Bromber
  • Part II. The Translocal, Transnational and Transregional Movement of People
  • Chapter 5. We are part of Zanzibar  Translocal Practices and Imaginative Geographies in Contemporary Oman-Zanzibar Relations; Julia Verne and Detlef Mþller-Mahn
  • Chapter 6. Of Red Cells, Translocality and Origins: Inherited Blood Disorders in Oman; Claire Beaudevin
  • Chapter 7. Oman-India Relations: Exploring the Long-Term Migration Dynamics; Samir Pradhan
  • Chapter 8. Negotiating Authenticity and Translocality in Oman: the Desertscapes of the Harasiis Tribe; Dawn Chatty
  • Part III. Micro and Macro Regionalisation through Economic Practices;
  • Chapter 9. Re-reading the Role of Oman within its International Trade Relations. From 16th through to the 19th Centuries; Beatrice Nicolini
  • Chapter 10. Oman and the Indian Ocean Rim  Economic Integration Across Conventional Meta-Regions; Steffen Wippel
  • Chapter 11. Oman Caught Between the GCC Common Market and Bilateral Free Trade with the US: Is It Worth Breaking the Rules?; Anja Zorob
  • Chapter 12. Musandam and its Trade with Iran. Regional Linkages across the Strait of Hormuz; Michael Benz
  • Chapter 13. Is Littoralization Reconfiguring the Omani Territory?; Belgacem Mokhtar
  • Chapter 14. The Impact of Shopping Malls on Traditional Retail Stores in Muscat. Case study of al-Seeb Wilayat; Montasser I. M. Abdelghani. Part IV. State and Society in Regional and Global Perspectives
  • Chapter 15. Private Documents as a Source for Regional History: The Archive of the ÝAbrÐyņ of al-ÍamrÁÞ; Michaela Hoffmann-Ruf
  • Chapter 16. Domesticating Local Elites. Sheikhs, Walis and State-Building under Sultan Qaboos; Marc Valeri
  • Chapter 17. Musandam: Creating a New Region Across the Water; Gulshan Dietl
  • Chapter 18. The Political Economy of Internationalization and Privatization of Higher Education in the Sultanate of Oman; Torsten Brandenburg
  • Chapter 19. Bringing the Global and the Local Together through English in Oman; Rahma Al-Mahrooqi and Victoria Tuzlukova
  • Concluding Remarks: Regionalizing Oman beyond Conventional Metageographies; Steffen Wippel.  .

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