Bordering the Middle East

ISBN-13: 9780367210212 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 142 str.

Daniel Meier

Opis

This volume focuses on the influence that borders in the Middle East can have on actors’ identity building, as well as how local, national, or transnational actors re/define borders and boundaries. This book was originally published as a special issue of Geopolitics.

Spis treści

Introduction to the Special Issue: Bordering the Middle East  1. States and Caliphates  2. Tribal Identity in Times of Peril  3. Borders and Spatial Imaginaries in the Kuwaiti Identity  4. Discreet and Hegemonic Borderscapes of Galilee: Lebanese Residents of Israel and the Israel–Lebanon Border  5. So Close, So Far. National Identity and Political Legitimacy in UAE-Oman Border Cities  6. International Boundaries and Borderlands in the Middle East: Balancing Context, Exceptionalism and Representation