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In-Between Border Spaces in the Levant (Hardcover)
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In-Between Border Spaces in the Levant (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Mediterranean Politics
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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 Syria's 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 man's 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.
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