Iridescent Kuwait Petro-Modernity and Urban Visual Culture since the Mid-Twentieth Century
Petro-modernity is a local phenomenon essential to the history of Kuwait, while also a global experience and one of the prime sources of climate change. The book investigates petroleum's role in the visual culture of Kuwait to understand the intersecting ideologies of modernization, political r...
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De Gruyter
2021
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