In-Between Border Spaces in the Levant
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.
In recent years, the Middle East has seen States attempts to shape buffer zones or safe zones in border regions, for example, in Syrias borderlands in the aftermath of the civil war. Typically studies on in-between borders refer to three interrelated aspects: space (territorial, symbolic), power (states or non-state actors) and identity (definition of the self/other). In this volume, the authors investigate these axes of research through the notions of sovereignty and belonging in order to assess how these concepts may highlight in-betweenness through a political dimension. Stemming from a perception of the borders as processes, these various studies aim to explore the theoretical potential of in-between border spaces to re-think sovereignty and identity belonging in such interstitial zones. While notions such as heterotopia, margins, liminality, borderlands, buffer zones, no mans land or frontiers will be explored, each case study highlights how actors, territory and powers relate to each other in order to improve our understanding of historical and political process that are shaping identities under spatial constraints.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Mediterranean Politics.
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).
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Contents
Daniel Meier
Evrim Grm
Zinovia Foka
Rosita Di Peri
Daniel Meier
Stphanie Latte Abdallah
Richard Schofield
The chapters in this book were originally published in Mediterranean Politics, volume 25, issue 3 (June 2020). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
In-between spaces in the Levant: Conceptual reflections
Daniel Meier
Mediterranean Politics, volume 25, issue 3 (June 2020), pp. 273288
Chapter 1
Bedouins and in-between border space in the northern Sinai
Evrim Grm
Mediterranean Politics, volume 25, issue 3 (June 2020), pp. 289309
Chapter 2
Exploring the in-between in Nicosias Buffer Zone: Local practices of de-bordering
Zinovia Foka
Mediterranean Politics, volume 25, issue 3 (June 2020), pp. 310331
Chapter 3
Stretching the margins: Identity, power and new frontiers in Lebanons Maronite community
Rosita Di Peri
Mediterranean Politics, volume 25, issue 3 (June 2020), pp. 332350
Chapter 4
Disputed territories in northern Iraq: The frontiering of in-between spaces
Daniel Meier
Mediterranean Politics, volume 25, issue 3 (June 2020), pp. 351371
Chapter 5
Endless borders: Detaining Palestinians and managing their movements in the occupied territories
Stphanie Latte Abdallah
Mediterranean Politics, volume 25, issue 3 (June 2020), pp. 372393
Chapter 6
Borderland studies, frontierization, and the Middle Easts in-between spaces
Richard Schofield
Mediterranean Politics, volume 25, issue 3 (June 2020), pp. 394411
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Stphanie Latte Abdallah, CNRS/CERI-SciencesPo, Paris, France.
Rosita Di Peri, Department of Culture, Politics and Society, University of Turin, Italy.