@article{ref1,
title="Dubai in extremis",
journal="Theory, culture and society",
year="2014",
author="Smith, R.G.",
volume="31",
number="8",
pages="291-296",
abstract="Dubai, the most extreme example to date of a realized neo-liberal capitalist urban utopia, is perhaps at its point of death. That is to say that, barring suicide, the only hope Dubai's bonded labour - those tricked, forced and exploited into negated lives of low-paid wage servitude - have of losing their chains, given the emirate's resilience to objections and protests from a multitude of commentators and activists, seems to be the stalling of construction, the falling demand for building projects - mega or otherwise - that the latest major financial crisis and economic recession necessitates. © 2014, SAGE Publications. All rights reserved.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0263-2764",
doi="10.1177/0263276414547775",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276414547775"
}