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
Language:	English
Published:	Philipps-Universität Marburg 2015
Subjects:	Gender Relations Neoliberalism Iraqi Kurdistan Shopping Malls Space Periphery General history of Asia; Middle East
Online Access:	Online Access
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