@article{c90d873cfac247cc8665ea085cd650e0,
title = "Nationalist particularism and levels of legitimizing architectural and urban traditions in four Gulf cities",
abstract = "This article interrogates acts and levels of legitimizing traditions with the aim of originating discerning accounts from the perspective of {\textquoteleft}Modern State{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}Nationalist Particularism.{\textquoteright} The analysis is undertaken at three different but related levels: chronological, representational, and interventional where each places emphasis on a particular aspect of legitimization. Gulf cities are identified as an appropriate context for this investigation, which is based on a multi-layered approach that interweaves procedures devised to probe each level separately while contributing to portray the overall milieu of legitimizing traditions. Genuinely legitimizing traditions necessitates employing bottom-up strategies while going beyond the practice of cloning traditions to embrace authentic responses to environmental, socio-cultural, and socioeconomic realities.",
keywords = "nationalism, modern state, legitimization, cloning, authenticity",
author = "Salama, {Ashraf M}",
year = "2016",
month = dec,
day = "14",
language = "English",
volume = "272",
pages = "1--28",
journal = "Traditional Dwellings and Settlements - Working Paper Series",
issn = "1050-2092",
}