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169443
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Where does the UAE’s Federal National Council fit in the scholarship on comparative legislative studies? Is it a “transformative” and “active” assembly (i.e. it makes legislation and policy) or is it an “arena” and “reactive” assembly (i.e. it focuses on public debate and policy influence)? Constitutionally, the FNC is portrayed as one of the Arabian Gulf region’s weaker assemblies. This article challenges that assumption. An analysis of the FNC’s media coverage in two newspapers in 2011–15 shows that its members’ actions resulted in the body acquiring a more expansive role. Members went beyond their formal revising powers of bills to propose legislation and funding and challenge ministers. The analysis also identifies members’ subject priorities (i.e. the economy and social security) and backgrounds, including more media attention accorded to members from smaller/poorer emirates (i.e. not Dubai and Abu Dhabi) and little difference between those who were elected and appointed.
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187514
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This article presents a qualitative discourse analysis of the Chinese arts collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, largest art museum in the United States, and how the museum’s promotional activities may potentially engender global cultural politics and entailing commercial debates regarding their Chinese relic collections. Although the museum has collected, restored, and exhibited foreign cultural heritage in its halls to promote social and cultural development, there may be potential risks when the museum hosts events and social activities in the midst of its collections. Therefore, this article interprets these issues through the conceptual lenses of cultural globalisation and cosmopolitanism within the cross-national context of museums. Overall, this article engages scholarly conversations regarding the paradoxical promotion activities by the museum from both the Chinese and American perspectives. This article calls on academics, journalists, and civil society to pay more attention to the museum’s foreign cultural heritage and promotional activities.
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