"...One can see traces of arguments that she developed in her later work critiquing the orientalist notion of an Islamic city, or the urban apartheid of Rabat, when she carefully explains the ways in which foreign elites separated government and social decision-making from the indigenous population for centuries."
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Janet Abu-Lughod
Janet Abu-Lughod (August 3, 1928 – December 14, 2013) was an American sociologist.
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