TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Dubai in extremis
JO  - Theory, culture and society
A1  - Smith, R.G.
SP  - 291
EP  - 296
VL  - 31
IS  - 8
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0263-2764
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276414547775
ID  - ref1
ER  -