The oil fuelled growth of Saudi Arabian cities and neoliberal urban transformation in the 20th and 21st centuries

Presentation by Claudia Ghrawi (ZMO) at MESA Annual Meeting. Panel: Urbanity in Saudi Arabia: New Frontiers in Research

This roundtable invites new approaches to the physical and social construction and usage of urban(izing) spaces in Saudi Arabia. It aims at bringing together historians, anthropologists and other social scientists interested in the development in the country. The discussion will aim to bring together work on the physical construction of Saudi cities, old and new, with approaches interested in different types of urban practices in a rapidly changing social and political environment.

Panel Chair Ulrike Freitag (ZMO)

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