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Fueling Petroculture: Contemporary Art from the Arabian Gulf

Aljared, Rawya
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4205-7166
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1523025656392709

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2018, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Interdisciplinary Arts (Fine Arts).
The unprecedented transformation of petromodernity in the Arabian Gulf’s landscape and culture during the twentieth century coincided with the formation of the Arabian Gulf nation states. As such, the Arabian Gulf’s oil economy is considered as an important factor in the stability and prosperity of these countries. This oil transformation has generated a modern lifestyle, denoted by petromodernity, which hinges on petroleum as its mode of energy. Petromodernity and its subsequent petroleum culture, or petroculture, serve as the framework for this research analysis of the Arabian Gulf’s contemporary art. The project focuses on how the works of art reflect the manifestation of petroculture on: 1) urban landscape; 2) social behaviors; and 3) environmental issues of the region. Navigating contemporary art in the Arabian Gulf through manifestations of petroculture attest to a new regional field in art history. This dissertation aims to lay out art as a mode of civic engagement and critical space regarding the discourse around the inevitable ramifications of energy transition by opening the possibility for the advocacy and the discussion of this topic within and beyond the region.
Andrea Frohne (Committee Chair)
Marina Peterson (Committee Member)
Jennie Klein (Committee Member)
Steve Howard (Committee Member)
200 p.
Art Criticism; Art History; Energy; Environmental Studies; Fine Arts; Middle Eastern Studies; Urban Planning
Contemporary Art; Petroculutre; Petromodernity; Arabian Gulf; Cultural Anthropology

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  • Aljared, R. (2018). Fueling Petroculture: Contemporary Art from the Arabian Gulf [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1523025656392709

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Aljared, Rawya. Fueling Petroculture: Contemporary Art from the Arabian Gulf. 2018. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1523025656392709.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Aljared, Rawya. "Fueling Petroculture: Contemporary Art from the Arabian Gulf." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1523025656392709

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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