Regimes of Mobility: Borders and State Formation in The Middle East, 1918-1946
Regimes of Mobility: Borders and State Formation in The Middle East, 1918-1946
- Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022
- 366 p., ill., maps; 23 cm
Part I: Post-Ottoman Territoriality
1. Revisiting Millî: Borders and the Making of the Turkish Nation-State / Alexander E. Balistreri -- 2. Borders of State Succession and Regime Change in the Post-Ottoman Middle East / Orçun Can Okan -- 3. The Last Ottoman Merchants: Regional Trade and Politics of Tariffs in Aleppo’s Hinterland, 1921–1929 / Ramazan Hakkı Öztan -- 4. Personal Connections and Regional Networks: Cross-Border Ford Automobile Distribution in French Mandate Syria / Simon Jackson -- 5. Polysemic Borders: Melkite and Orthodox Clerics and Laymen in the Emirate of Transjordan, 1920s–1940s / Norig Neveu -- 6. Contested Terrain: Cross-Border Violence, Politics, and Memory in Syria’s Kurd Dagh Regio / Katharina LangePart II: Cross-Border Mobilities
Part II: Cross-Border Mobilities
7. Borders, Disease and Territoriality in the Post-Ottoman Middle East / Samuel Dolbee -- 8. Motor Cars and Transdesert Traffic: Channelling Mobilities between Iraq and Syria, 1923–30 / César Jaquier -- 9. Border Transgressions, Border Controls: Mobility along Palestine’s Northern Frontier, 1930–1946/Lauren Banko--10. When Nomads Flee: ‘Raider’, ‘Rebel’ and ‘Refugee’ in southern Iraq / Robert Fletcher -- 11. The ‘Camel Dispute’: Cross-Border Mobility and Tribal Conflicts in the Iraqi-Syrian Borderland, 1929–1934 / Laura Stocker
"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." --Provided by publisher.
9781474487979
Borderlands--Syria--Jordan--Palestine--Lebanon--Turkey--20th century
Middle East--History--20th century
Borders--Middle East--20th century
Mobility--Middle East--20th century
Part I: Post-Ottoman Territoriality
1. Revisiting Millî: Borders and the Making of the Turkish Nation-State / Alexander E. Balistreri -- 2. Borders of State Succession and Regime Change in the Post-Ottoman Middle East / Orçun Can Okan -- 3. The Last Ottoman Merchants: Regional Trade and Politics of Tariffs in Aleppo’s Hinterland, 1921–1929 / Ramazan Hakkı Öztan -- 4. Personal Connections and Regional Networks: Cross-Border Ford Automobile Distribution in French Mandate Syria / Simon Jackson -- 5. Polysemic Borders: Melkite and Orthodox Clerics and Laymen in the Emirate of Transjordan, 1920s–1940s / Norig Neveu -- 6. Contested Terrain: Cross-Border Violence, Politics, and Memory in Syria’s Kurd Dagh Regio / Katharina LangePart II: Cross-Border Mobilities
Part II: Cross-Border Mobilities
7. Borders, Disease and Territoriality in the Post-Ottoman Middle East / Samuel Dolbee -- 8. Motor Cars and Transdesert Traffic: Channelling Mobilities between Iraq and Syria, 1923–30 / César Jaquier -- 9. Border Transgressions, Border Controls: Mobility along Palestine’s Northern Frontier, 1930–1946/Lauren Banko--10. When Nomads Flee: ‘Raider’, ‘Rebel’ and ‘Refugee’ in southern Iraq / Robert Fletcher -- 11. The ‘Camel Dispute’: Cross-Border Mobility and Tribal Conflicts in the Iraqi-Syrian Borderland, 1929–1934 / Laura Stocker
"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." --Provided by publisher.
9781474487979
Borderlands--Syria--Jordan--Palestine--Lebanon--Turkey--20th century
Middle East--History--20th century
Borders--Middle East--20th century
Mobility--Middle East--20th century