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Dubai, between tourism and the surplus 3


By JemG - Posted on 01 September 2008

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This appears to be a simple business decision, it can also be analyzed by other formas.El main problem with the notion of "modular freedoms" is that makes access to civil liberties, which usually is enshrined in constitution and any treaty human rights as something that belongs to every human being in a category that applies only to those with more. That's easy: the full exercise of rights is reserved for the upper class of business travelers and international professional, while the rest of the population is excluded by default.

In considering political experience in terms of tourism planning in Dubai, it is shocking to discover that political freedoms, enshrined for decades in many countries as a right of every citizen, are transformed into a commodity available only for the more affluent classes. In other words, the full exercise of freedom is guaranteed only to those with more. In these years, global economic processes have helped deepen the inequality between the world's inhabitants, and expanding the income gap between rich and poor. The Dubai project takes this a step further by establishing that the full exercise of rights is reserved for those in greatest need. If we add to this that the viability of the tourism planning is precisely linked to this global inequality, which allows the creation of a class of super rich and stimulates demand for commodities such as oil-main entrance of United Arab Emirates-we will see that this item can not be limited to a mere tourist analysis.

The same, surely, we're going to find in the future, wonderful descriptions of the projects in Dubai, which carefully avoids any reference to political analysis. As a miracle would grow in the middle of the desert, the most impressive architectural projects in the world.