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Towards a Decentred History of the Middle East: Transborder Spaces, Circulations, Frontier Effects and State Formation, 1920-1946
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Towards a Decentred History of the Middle East: Transborder Spaces, Circulations, Frontier Effects and State Formation, 1920-1946
Description
Based on two epistemological notions – borderlands as histoire-problème (history-as-problem) on the one hand, and the co-production of borders between state and society (and ultimately the nation-state) on the other – our research project proposes to rethink the classical historical narrative about the emergence of the post-Ottoman Middle East. It takes its cue from transborder phenomena: on the one hand, the circulation of people, goods and ideas; and, on the other hand, the negotiation of ties between local actors and representatives of state authority.
In so doing, the project departs from normative approaches about bordering processes and state sovereignty. Although it pays attention to issues such as international treaties and diplomatic negotiations over the delimitation of boundaries following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and thus draws on concerns formulated by the disciplines of International Law and International Relations, our history-based research agenda is mainly inspired by methodological and epistemological debates among geographers, anthropologists and sociologists.
In so doing, the project departs from normative approaches about bordering processes and state sovereignty. Although it pays attention to issues such as international treaties and diplomatic negotiations over the delimitation of boundaries following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and thus draws on concerns formulated by the disciplines of International Law and International Relations, our history-based research agenda is mainly inspired by methodological and epistemological debates among geographers, anthropologists and sociologists.
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Ongoing
Date de début
1 Septembre 2017
Date de fin
31 Août 2022
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- PublicationAccès libre« Des femmes contre des moutons » Franchissements féminins de la frontière turco-syrienne (1929-1944)(2020-4-7)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.
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- PublicationAccès libreRegimes of Mobility: Borders and State Formation in the Middle East, 1918-1946For 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.
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