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Introduction : societies, identities and global issues / Paul Dresch --. - Channels of interaction : the role of Gulf-owned media firms in globalisation / Naomi Sakr --. - Dialect and national identity : the cultural politics of self-representation in Bahraini Musalsalāt / Clive Holes --. - Cultural construction, the Gulf and Arab London / Christa Salamandra --. - Transnational connections and national identity : Zanzibari Omanis in Muscat / Madawi Al-Rasheed --. - Neither autocracy nor democracy but ethnocracy : citizens, expatriates and the socio-political system in Kuwait / Anh Nga Longva --. - Debates on marriage and nationality in the United Arab Emirates / Paul Dresch --. - Public order and authority : policing Kuwait / Jill Crystal --. - Gender, religious knowledge and education in Oman / Mandana E. Limbert --. - Political actors without the franchise : women and politics in Kuwait / Haya al-Mughni, Mary Ann Tétreault --. - Managing God's guests : the pilgrimage, Saudi Arabia and the politics of legitimacy / James Piscatori

Published in Association with the Institute for the Study of Muslim CivilisationsAnalyses the links between gender and governance in contemporary Muslim majority countries and diaspora contextsFollowing a period of rapid political change, both globally and in relation to the Middle East and South Asia, this collection sets new terms of reference for an analysis of the intersections between global, state, non-state and popular actors and their contradictory effects on the politics of gender.The volume charts the shifts in academic discourse and global development practice that shape our understanding of gender both as an object of policy and as a terrain for activism. Nine individual case studies systematically explore how struggles for political control and legitimacy determine both the ways in which dominant gender orders are safeguarded and the diverse forms of resistance against them. Key FeaturesHighlights the centrality of gender politics in understanding political changes and new forms of governance in Muslim majority contextsExplores gender politics in Muslim majority countries as well as Muslim diasporas in Europe and the USCritically discusses the transformations of the role of religion in intersecting layers of local, national and transnational governancePresents 9 case studies: Egypt; Iran; Turkey; Saudi Arabia; Afghanistan; Palestine; Iraq; Pakistan; and diasporic communities in Europe and North America