Regimes of Mobility: Borders and State Formation in the Middle East, 1918-1946 - Softcover

Tejel, Jordi; Ramazan Hakkı Öztan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474487971 ISBN 13: 9781474487979

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Reinterprets the making of the modern Middle East by studying its borderlands Evidence-driven case studies cover borderlands in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Transjordan Informed by discussions in borderland and mobility studies, and by global and environmental history Brings late Ottomanists into conversation with historians of the interwar Middle East 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.

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About the Author

Jordi Tejel is Research Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Neuch tel. Between 2017-2022, he has led a European Research Council (ERC, Consolidator Grant) research project on the borderlands of the interwar Middle East. He has notably authored La question kurde: Pass et pr sent (2014), Syria's Kurds: History, Politics and Society(2009), and co-edited with Ramazan Hakk? ztan Regimes of Mobility: Borders and State Formation in the Middle East, 1918-1946 (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), and with Peter Sluglett, Hamit Bozarslan and Riccardo Bocco Writing the History of Iraq: Historiographical and Political Challenges (2012). He has also published in journals such as British Journal of Middle East Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, European Journal of Turkish Studies, Iranian Studies, Journal of Borderlands Studies, Journal of Migration History, Middle East Studies, and 20&21. Revue d'histoire.Ramazan Hakk? Oztan is Assistant Professor of History at the Atat rk Institute for Modern Turkish History at Bo?azi i University, Istanbul.

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Reinterprets the making of the modern Middle East by studying its borderlands 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. For the past two decades, insights gained from the burgeoning field of borderlands studies have enabled a new generation of scholars to challenge such popular depictions. For them, the region's borderlands were not 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. Key features - Evidence-driven case studies cover borderlands in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, and Transjordan - Informed by discussions in borderland and mobility studies, and by global and environmental history - Brings late Ottomanists into conversation with historians of the interwar Middle East Jordi Tejel is Research Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Neuchâtel. Ramazan Hakkı Öztan is Assistant Professor at the Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474487971
• ISBN 13: 9781474487979
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392
• Editor: Tejel Jordi, Ramazan Hakkı Öztan