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- Being Young, Male and Saudi
- Being Young, Male and Saudi
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction and Background
- 1 What Is Saudi? Identity, Religiosity and Generational Divides
- 2 The Saudi ‘Social Contract’ Under Strain: Employment, Housing and Healthcare
- 3 The New Media Revolution, Public Opinion and the Relationship between the Governing and the Governed
- 4 Education, Societal Transformation and Globalization
- 5 Masculinity, Gender Relations and Marriage
- 6 Distrust, Fault Lines and Recreation
- 7 Saudi Vision 2030 and National Development
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction and Background
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2019
- Being Young, Male and Saudi
- Being Young, Male and Saudi
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction and Background
- 1 What Is Saudi? Identity, Religiosity and Generational Divides
- 2 The Saudi ‘Social Contract’ Under Strain: Employment, Housing and Healthcare
- 3 The New Media Revolution, Public Opinion and the Relationship between the Governing and the Governed
- 4 Education, Societal Transformation and Globalization
- 5 Masculinity, Gender Relations and Marriage
- 6 Distrust, Fault Lines and Recreation
- 7 Saudi Vision 2030 and National Development
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
At some point, any visitor to Saudi Arabia will end up in one of the Kingdom’s ubiquitous shopping malls, as, until 2017, ‘going to the mall’ provided one of the few opportunities for ‘entertainment’ and (a degree of) gender mixing.
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- Being Young, Male and SaudiIdentity and Politics in a Globalized Kingdom, pp. 1 - 16Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019