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Ahmed Kanna
Trinity College
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
Email:
[email protected]
Center Urban/Global Studies
Trinity College 70 Vernon Street
Hartford CT 06106
United States
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Globalization
Urban Studies
Gulf Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Gulf
Iran
Iraq
Lebanon
Specialties
Anthropology Of Architecture
Critical Theory
Empire And "local Cultures"
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
German (advanced)
English (fluent)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2006 | Anthropology | Harvard University
MA | 2000 | Middle East Studies | Harvard University
Abstracts
A Critique of Urbanist Ideology in the UAE: Starchitects, Sheikhs, and the Spatialized Death of Politics in the Gulf
Re-Orientalizing the East: Culture as Urban Politics in the UAE
"Imperial" Dubai: A Lefebvrian Reading
"Terroristic Youth and Piratical Urbanism: MENA Cities in Contemporary Urban Theory"
The Anthropologist as Migrant Worker: Encounters of Privilege, Discrimination, and Governmentality in the Gulf
Class Struggle, Marxist Analysis, and De-exceptionalizing the Arab Gulf