Regimes of Mobility / edited by Jordi Tejel, Ramazan Hakkı Öztan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Öztan, Ramazan Hakkı, editor.

Tejel, Jordi, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Middle East--History--20th century.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 366 pages)

Other Title:

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Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"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"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction: Regimes of Mobility in Middle Eastern Borderlands, 1918–46

Part I Post-Ottoman Territoriality

1 Revisiting Millî: Borders and the Making of the Turkish Nation State

2 Borders of State Succession and Regime Change in the Post-Ottoman Middle East

3 The Last Ottoman Merchants: Regional Trade and Politics of Tariff s in Aleppo’s Hinterland, 1921–29

4 Personal Connect ions and Regional Networks: Cross-border Ford Automobile Distribution in French Mandate Syria

5 Polysemic Borders: Melkite and Orthodox Clerics and Laymen in the Emirate of Transjordan, 1920s–1940s

6 Contested Terrain: Cross-border Violence, Politics and Memory in Syria’s Kurd Dagh Region

Part II Cross-border Mobilities

7 Borders, Disease and Territoriality in the Post-Ottoman Middle East

8 Motor Cars and Transdesert Traffi c: Channelling Mobilities between Iraq and Syria, 1923–30

9 Border Transgressions, Border Controls: Mobility along Palestine’s Northern Frontier, 1930–46

10 When Nomads Flee: ‘Raider’, ‘Rebel’ and ‘Refugee’ in Southern Iraq, 1917–30

11 The ‘Camel Dispute’: Cross-border Mobility and Tribal Conflicts in the Iraqi–Syrian Borderland, 1929–34

Afterword: Non/State Actors, Timelines, Border and/versus Territory, Global Contexts

Index

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

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ISBN:

9781474487986

147448798X

OCLC:

1308954641