Domesticity as Nation Building in the United Arab Emirates

IF 1.7 Q3 URBAN STUDIES
Urban Planning Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI:10.17645/up.7775
Sophie A. Johnson
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The legacy passed on from one generation to another has deep connections to a shared identity, a sense of belonging, and cultural heritage. Different types of architecture reflect cultural and societal changes, especially housing. In the UAE, housing has played an important role in nation-building efforts, with the Emirati villa, a space filled with intangible practices through which domestic cultural production and national identity can be read. Therefore, the transformation of domesticity has been instrumental in the process of rapid Emiratisation and nation-building. This article discusses the tangible and intangible aspects of domesticity and hospitality found in the Emirati villa using conventional architectural analysis and live experience studies. By presenting what guides and informs domestic practices, one can read the interior space as a series of spatial qualities. It asks: How have Emirati homes become a means to create and preserve shared social practices? This aims to reveal how social practices, such as hospitality, are spatialised in Emirati homes, capturing everyday life and social norms. The article argues for the recognition of domestic cultural transformations as a valuable contribution to Emirati national identity over the last 50 years of nation-building.
阿拉伯联合酋长国的家政即国家建设
代代相传的遗产与共同的身份、归属感和文化遗产有着深刻的联系。不同类型的建筑反映了文化和社会的变迁,尤其是住房。在阿联酋,住房在国家建设中发挥了重要作用,阿联酋别墅是一个充满无形实践的空间,通过它可以解读国内文化生产和民族身份。因此,在阿联酋迅速实现酋长国化和国家建设的过程中,家庭性的转变发挥了重要作用。本文通过传统的建筑分析和现场体验研究,讨论了阿联酋别墅中家常和好客的有形和无形方面。通过介绍引导和指导家庭实践的因素,我们可以将室内空间解读为一系列空间特质。它的问题是阿联酋人的住宅是如何成为创造和维护共同社会实践的手段的?文章旨在揭示阿联酋人的住宅是如何将待客之道等社会习俗空间化,并捕捉日常生活和社会规范的。文章认为,在过去 50 年的国家建设过程中,家庭文化变迁是对阿联酋民族特性的宝贵贡献。
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Urban Planning
Urban Planning URBAN STUDIES-
CiteScore
3.60
自引率
5.60%
发文量
124
审稿时长
12 weeks
期刊介绍: Urban Planning is a new international peer-reviewed open access journal of urban studies aimed at advancing understandings and ideas of humankind’s habitats – villages, towns, cities, megacities – in order to promote progress and quality of life. The journal brings urban science and urban planning together with other cross-disciplinary fields such as sociology, ecology, psychology, technology, politics, philosophy, geography, environmental science, economics, maths and computer science, to understand processes influencing urban forms and structures, their relations with environment and life quality, with the final aim to identify patterns towards progress and quality of life.
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