Overview
While the wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen, alongside the establishment of the so-called ""Islamic Caliphate"" have brought the debate about the crisis of the territorial nation-state in the Middle East once again to the fore, this issue cannot be simply understood as the logical consequence of either an imported political construction or the purported artificiality of Middle Eastern borders. Instead, the process of state formation in the region has been a complicated course that involved different institutional traditions, managing societies marked by varying degrees of political loyalty to central power, and dealing with colonial interference. Rethinking State and Border Formation in the Middle East seeks to disentangle some of these complexities by proposing both a decentred and dialectic approach. Taking its cue from the bourgeoning field of borderland studies and a variety of historical sub-disciplines, this monograph pays attention to the circulation of people, goods, diseases and ideas as well as to the everyday encounters between a wide range of state and non-state actors in the borderlands laying between Turkey, Syria and Iraq. The goal is to provide a much more holistic yet finely-grained understanding of the formation of the territorial state in the interwar Middle East.
Full Product Details
Author: Jordi Tejel
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.549kg
ISBN: 9781399503655
ISBN 10: 1399503650
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 31 May 2023
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""Theoretically astute and empirically meticulous, Jordi Tejel's Rethinking State and Border Formation in the Middle East deftly navigates between high diplomacy and everyday issues on the border. Tejel exposes a region long left out of conventional histories by centering the dynamism of borderlanders themselves, including border-crossing Sufi healers, silk-stocking smugglers and polyglot merchants who used Ottoman currency even after the empire's demise."" -Samuel Dolbee, Vanderbilt University"
Author Information
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.
