Syria: borders, boundaries, and the state

by Cimino, Matthieu

Type Book

Rate 0.0 /5

Details

Files

Reviews

Download

Title Statements

Full title :Syria : borders, boundaries, and the state / Matthieu Cimino, editor.

Summary

This book explores the history of Syria's borders and boundaries, from their creation (1920) until the civil war (2011) and their contestation by the Islamic State or the Kurdish movement. The volume's main objective is to reconsider the "artificial" character of the Syrian territory and to reveal the processes by which its borders were shaped and eventually internalized by the country's main actors. Based on extensive archival research, the book first documents the creation and stabilization of Syrian borders before and during the mandates period (nineteenth century to 1946), studying Ottoman and French territorialization strategies but also emphasizing the key role of the borderlands in this process. In turn, it investigates the perceptual boundaries resulting from the conflict, and how they materialized in space. Lastly, it explores the geographical and political imaginaries of non-state actors (PYD, ISIS) that emerged from the war. Matthieu Cimino is a Fellow at the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) and a Teacher at Sciences Po and La Sorbonne, France. Formerly, he was a Marie-Skɫodowska Curie researcher at the University of Oxford (Oriental Studies, St Antony's College, 2016-2018), UK, and an associate researcher at the Moshe Dayan Center, Israel. .

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:Cham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020.

Notes

Method and Sources

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (310 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783030448776, 3030448770
oclc:on1159172679
LC Classification:JQ1758
Dewey Decimal:320.956

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About This Book/Conference -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- The Invention of Syrian Borders and the Affirmation of the Modern State -- Spatial and Symbolic Boundaries: Reconfigurations in Times of War -- "Syria as We See It": Territorialities, Contemporary Imagined Geographies, and the Syrian Conflict -- References -- Part I From the Mandate to Assad's Dynasty: Constructing, Contesting, and Legitimizing Syrian Borders (1920-2011) -- 2 Drawing a Line in the Sand? Another (Hi)Story of Borders

Introduction -- Studying the Fabric of the Border -- Tanzimat Reforms, Settlements, and the Euphrates River -- Transport, Technologies, and Control of the Area -- Completing the Ottoman Reforms, the Action of the French Authorities in Syria -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 The Turkish-Syrian Border and Politics of Difference in Turkey and Syria (1921-1939) -- Introduction -- Retarded Presence and Politics of Border in French-Syria -- Turkey and the Border Region in 1920s: Ordering Through Deliberate Destabilization -- International Border-Making as a Turkish Domestic Matter -- Conclusion

Hafez…

Subjects

Boundaries History international relations Middle East Middle East -- Politics and government Moyen-Orient -- Politique et gouverneme… Politics and government Relations internationales Syria Syria -- Boundaries Syria -- History -- 20th century Syria -- History -- 21st century Syrie -- Histoire -- 21e siècle