A Periphery Becomes a Center? Shopping Malls as Symbols of Modernity in Iraqi Kurdistan

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 shopping malls, as e...

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Published in:Middle East - Topics & Arguments
Main Author: Sama, Schluwa
Format: Journal Article
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English
Published: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2015
Subjects:
Periphery
Neoliberalism
Space
Shopping Malls
Iraqi Kurdistan
Gender Relations
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Call Number: urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-ep0003-2015-103-36424
Publication Date: 2015-11-03
Access URL: https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/ep/0003/2015/103/3642
https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2015.5.3642

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