Saudi Arabia’s Urban Revolution

Oil Urbanization and Protest in al-Ahsaʾ/ the Eastern Province

AvClaudia Ghrawi

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Del 136 i serien Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia

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Beskrivning

This book discusses popular contention in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province (until 1952 the governorate of al-Ahsaʾ) under the aegis of petro-capitalism. The notion of urban revolution takes on a double meaning, namely the rapid urbanisation which broke with the region’s urban past and destroyed the oasis environment and merchant economy, and the types of resistance and rebellious fervour that were triggered by the concentration of labour and industrial production in the new urban centres. The book uses archival sources from the United States, Great Britain, and Saudi Arabia as well as accounts of Saudi oil workers, activists, and other contemporaries.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-10-30
Mått:155 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt:571 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia
Antal sidor:254
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004735507

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Claudia Ghrawi is an independent researcher who has worked at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin (2011-2021). She studied history in Potsdam and Berlin and is co-editor of Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds. Religion and Society in the Context of the Global (De Gruyter 2021).

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationList of Figures and Tables1 Introduction1 The Power of Oil2 Oil Histories3 A Word on Sources4 Outline of the Book2 Society and Politics before Oil1 The Two Oases2 The New Saudi State3 Some Thoughts on Sectarianism3 The Emergent Oil Conurbation1 Labor Camps, Boom Towns and Hinterlands2 Conflicts Over Land and Expropriation3 Changing Social Geographies4 Control and Surveillance4 Popular Politics on the Oil Frontier1 The Saudi Labor Struggle2 Contested Frontiers – a Politicization of Space5 Urban Revolution1 Ambivalent Urbanities2 Urban Struggle and Repression6 Fractured Cities1 The Old Polities2 A New Urban Reality under the Aegis of Petro-Capitalism3 How the Urban Revolution Unfolds4 Alliances between Labor and Urban Classes5 Social Malaise6 Sectarianization as Counter-Revolution7 Rural RebellionEpilogueAppendixBibliographyIndex