Tag Archives: dubai
From Gulf Houses to NRI Flats: On Kochi’s “World Class” Urban Transformation
I published a short essay from PhD dissertation in Ala: A Kerala Studies Blog. Many thanks to Shilpa Menon and the Editors of Ala for thoughtful comments and feedback that have significantly improved this essay. Read the full essay here, https://alablog.in/issues/68/gulf-houses-to-nri-flats/ As you exit the “world’s first green airport” in Nedumbassery on the outskirts of […]
TRANSNATIONAL URBANISM
Below are images from ethnographic fieldwork conducted with research participants involved in Dubai’s real estate industry, including diaspora Indian home buyers and investors, real estate brokers, sales and marketing executives, and banking sector officials.
B.Arch Thesis Fieldwork
In June 2010, I spent three weeks conducting semi-structured interviews, observations, and collecting textual and visual data about football/soccer stadiums in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, UAE for my BArch thesis. My sincere thanks to Dileep Menon who facilitated this visit and to all the Malayali, South Asian, and Arab stadium managers, groundmen, and security guards […]
Siddharth Menon 