John McManus: Inside Qatar | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781785788215 | Inside Qatar | Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth

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'A wonderful and sometimes devastating book ... sophisticated, nuanced, fair-minded and yet very hard hitting' SIMON KUPER

'This will transport you to Qatar and teach you with humanity and empathy some of the dark truths about globalisation' BEN JUDAH

'John McManus is a remarkable, compelling writer' RORY STEWART 'Wise, well informed, fair-minded and honest' PETER OBORNE AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF LIFE IN THE FIFA 2022 WORLD CUP'S HOST NATION Just 75 years ago, the Gulf nation of Qatar was a backwater, reliant on pearl diving. Today it is a gas-laden parvenu with seemingly limitless wealth and ambition. Skyscrapers, museums and futuristic football stadiums rise out of the desert and Ferraris race through the streets. But in the shadows, migrant workers toil in the heat for risible amounts. Inside Qatar reveals how real people live in this surreal place, a land of both great opportunity and great iniquity. Ahead of Qatar's time in the limelight as host of the 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup, anthropologist John McManus lifts a lid on the hidden worlds of its gilded elite, its spin doctors and thrill seekers, its manual labourers and domestic workers. The sum of their tales is not some exotic cabinet of curiosities. Instead, Inside Qatar opens a window onto the global problems - of unfettered capitalism, growing inequality and climate change - that concern us all.

Über den Autor

John McManus is a social anthropologist and writer who has spent most of the past decade in Turkey and the Middle East. He is the author of Welcome to Hell? In Search of the Real Turkish Football. He lives in Ankara, Turkey.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Fachbereich:	Populäre Darstellungen
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	388 S.
ISBN-13:	9781785788215
ISBN-10:	1785788213
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	McManus, John
Hersteller:	Icon Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	193 x 128 x 36 mm
Von/Mit:	John McManus
Erscheinungsdatum:	07.07.2022
Gewicht:	0,348 kg