A Periphery Becomes a Center? Shopping Malls as Symbols of Modernity in Iraqi Kurdistan
Being labelled and framed as a remote periphery of Iraq, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq is transforming since 2003 into a center attracting investments worth billions of dollars. Investigating this transformation, I scrutinize one of the visible outcomes of the investments, namely shop- ping malls, as...
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| Language: | English |
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Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies
2015-11-01
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| Series: | Middle East : Topics & Arguments |
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| Online Access: | http://meta-journal.net/article/view/3642 |