In-Between Border Spaces in the Levant

ISBN-13: 9780367632366 / Miękka / 2023 / 146 str.

Opis

This book focuses on interstitial spaces or in-between borders in the Middle East. Using various case studies, it raises the question how actors living in these regions perform their belonging despite the apparent constraints of history and politics.

Spis treści

Introduction: In-between spaces in the Levant: Conceptual reflections

Daniel Meier

1. Bedouins and in-between border space in the northern Sinai

Evrim Görmüş

2. Exploring the ‘in-between’ in Nicosia’s Buffer Zone: Local practices of de-bordering

Zinovia Foka

3. Stretching the margins: Identity, power and new ‘frontiers’ in Lebanon’s Maronite community

Rosita Di Peri

4. ‘Disputed territories’ in northern Iraq: The frontiering of in-between spaces

Daniel Meier

5. Endless borders: Detaining Palestinians and managing their movements in the occupied territories

Stéphanie Latte Abdallah

6. Borderland studies, frontierization, and the Middle East’s in-between spaces

Richard Schofield

O autorze

Daniel Meier is a political scientist in Middle Eastern studies. He is Associate Professor at Sciences Po Grenoble and teaches regularly in Geneva, Beirut, Venice and Turin. His research are focuses on identity and spatial issues, with a dedication for borders and borderlanders. He recently edited Bordering the Middle East (Routledge, 2019).