Beyond the Autonomous Rentier State: Parliamentary Politics and National Identity in Kuwait
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2010
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Hayes, Paul Robert
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Oil‐rich Middle Eastern states are frequently characterised by
the supposed formativeness of ‘rent’. Rent generated from
hydrocarbon resources is often evoked to explain the enduring
formation of ‘autonomous’, often authoritarian states,
detached from a broader body politic. As this paper argues,
monarchical and oil‐rich Kuwait does much to
problematise these causal logics of rent and its
anti‐democratic payoffs. Instead, I locate a particularly
active parliament and citizenry, who, along with South Asian
migrant workers, are reconfiguring the state‐society
relationship, leading to new kinds of popular, democratic
politics.
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rentier state theory, resource curse, democracy, Kuwait, authoritanianism, migrant workers, ethnic identity, national identity, oil
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