How Long to Read Everyday Life in the Spectacular City

How Long Does it Take to Read Everyday Life in the Spectacular City?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 56 minutes to read Everyday Life in the Spectacular City by Rana AlMutawa

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Everyday Life in the Spectacular City is a groundbreaking urban ethnography that reveals how middle-class citizens and longtime residents of Dubai interact with the city's so-called superficial spaces to create meaningful social lives. Rana AlMutawa shows that inhabitants adapt themselves to top-down development projects, from big malls to megaprojects. These structures serve residents' evolving social needs, transforming Dubai's spectacular spaces into personally important cultural sites. These practices are significant because they expand our understanding of agency as not only subversive but also adaptive. Through extensive fieldwork, AlMutawa, herself an Emirati native to Dubai, finds a more nuanced story of belonging. This story does not seek to uncover the "real" city that lies beneath the veneer of the spectacle, but rather to demonstrate that social meanings and forms of belonging take place within the spectacle itself. By offering an alternative to the discourse of authenticity and elucidating the dynamics of ambivalent belonging, AlMutawa belies stereotypes that portray Dubai's developments as alienating and inherently disempowering. Everyday Life in the Spectacular City speaks beyond the Middle East to a globalized phenomenon, for Dubai's spectacles are unexceptional in today's changing world.

How long is Everyday Life in the Spectacular City?

Everyday Life in the Spectacular City by Rana AlMutawa is 293 pages long, and a total of 74,129 words.

This makes it 99% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Everyday Life in the Spectacular City Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 45 minutes to read Everyday Life in the Spectacular City aloud.

What Reading Level is Everyday Life in the Spectacular City?

Everyday Life in the Spectacular City is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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