Dressing the nation? Symbolizing Emirati national identity and boundaries through national dress

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explored possible stereotypes of scientists and their work which may exist, and which may impact upon future career aspirations, and found that students tended to draw youthful scientists of their own gender, with stereotypical characteristics, such as wearing a lab coat, performing chemistry experiments and working alone in a lab.

TL;DR: The authors argue that these practices are best understood as a form of segregated cosmopolitanism through which the different migrant communities both acknowledge (and at times consume) urban diversity and maintain certain boundaries.

TL;DR: The concept of "sex" is itself troubled terrain, formed through a series of contestations over what ought to be decisive criterion for distinguishing between the several sexes; the concept of sex has a history that is covered over by the figure of the site or surface of inscription as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: This paper examined how national identity is represented, performed, spatialized and materialized through popular culture and in everyday life, and found that national identity was inherent in the things we often take for granted - from landscapes and eating habits, to tourism, cinema and music.