Bordering the Middle East

ISBN-13: 9780367729844 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 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

O autorze

Daniel Meier is Associated Researcher at CNRS- Pacte in Grenoble, France, and teaches at Sciences Po Grenoble, France, and Ca’Foscari University, Venice, Italy. He conducted extensive fieldwork in the Middle East and was a former Senior Associate Member of St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, UK. His research focuses on the relationship between space and identity in the Middle East.