Regimes of Mobility: Borders and State Formation in the Middle East, 1918-1946
For the past two decades, insights gained from the burgeoning field of borderlands studies have enabled a new generation of scholars to challenge popular depictions of the emergence of the modern Middle East. For them, the region’s borderlands were not just mere sites of peripheral activity, but rather liminal spaces criss-crossed by global flows and circulations central to state- and nation-formation across the Middle East. Regimes of Mobility offers a select number of case studies that highlight the connectedness of the politics of borderlands throughout the interwar Middle East. The emergence of the modern Middle East is the result of three complementary historical developments: the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, the institution of British and French control in its stead and the nationalist challenges to this colonial scramble. The introduction of international borders that accompanied this process is commonly portrayed as the drawing of lines in the sand, an artificial partitioning that brought diplomatic closure to an otherwise contested historical space.
States of Rumors: Politics of Information Along the Turkish-Syrian Border, 1925–1945
"The Last Ottoman Rogues: The Kurdish-Armenian Alliance in Syria and the New State-System in the Interwar Middle East"
Borders of Mobility? Crime and Punishment along the Syrian-Turkish Border, 1921-1939
« Des femmes contre des moutons » Franchissements féminins de la frontière turco-syrienne (1929-1944)
En croisant les apports des études de genre et des border studies, cet article étudie les conditions de vie des femmes dans les zones rurales à l’extrémité orientale de la frontière turco-syrienne (Haute Jazîra) ainsi que leur capacité d’agentivité, en explorant la mobilité transfrontalière de courte distance. Adoptant une approche décentrée de l’histoire, l’article montre ensuite combien l’analyse de la coopération frontalière pour faire face aux affaires diverses touchant à des femmes permet d’approfondir non seulement nos connaissances sur la manière dont le droit s’incarne, mais également d’appréhender les processus complexes de construction étatique dans un contexte marqué par d’âpres enjeux frontaliers entre la Turquie et la Syrie.