University of South Carolina
An Examination of the Contradictory Goals of Nation-Building and Neoliberalism of the Education City Project in Doha, Qatar
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>This thesis seeks to investigate the ways in which Qatari students at Education City (a campus space that houses six US universities in Doha, Qatar) are negotiating the competing imperatives embodied by this space through the transplantation of not only Western ideals and values in the Gulf, but also the direct pedagogical principles of Western institutions in name and action to a region that is undergoing rapid economic development along neoliberal capitalist lines. It seeks to investigate how Qataris who are attending Education City are situating themselves in the local, national and global realms and how (or if) they are negotiating their new globalized identities with their traditional ones by creating an understanding of citizenship that conforms to neoliberal imperatives while still adhering to nation-state oriented conceptions of social membership and citizenship.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- M.A.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Campus Access Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Geography
- Year
- 2010
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Cockram, Andrew Derik
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Caroline Nagel
Subjects
dc:subject × 9Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- © 2010, Andrew Derik Cockram
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/1276
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholarcommons.sc.edu:etd-2277