Boundaries and Belonging

States and Societies in the Struggle to Shape Identities and Local Practices
Herausgeber: Migdal, Joel S.; Joel S., Migdal

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This interdisciplinary volume maintains the importance of a spatial understanding of society and history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 609g
• ISBN-13: 9780521068499
• ISBN-10: 0521068495
• Artikelnr.: 23832989

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Preface and Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction:
1. Mental maps and virtual checkpoints: struggles to construct and maintain
State and social boundaries Joel S. Migdal; Part II. On the Eve of the
Nation-State: The Ottoman Empire: 2. Do states always favor stasis?
Changing status of tribes in the Ottoman empire Resart Kasaba; 3. The
preamble boundaries of Ottoman jewry Sarah Abrevya Stein; Part III. The
State and 'Dangerous Populations': 4. 'Dangerous populations': state
territoriality and the constitution of national minorities Adriana Kemp; 5.
Making Myanmars: language, territory, and belonging in post-socialist Burma
Mary Callahan; 6. Institutionalizing virtual Kurdistan West: pro-Kurdish
politics in Western Europe Nicole Watts; Part IV. Inscribing Membership and
Contesting Membership in the Nation: 7. Challenging boundaries and
belongings: 'mixed blood' allotment disputes at the turn of the twentieth
century Lauren Basson; 8. Belonging and not: civil boundaries in Rossland,
BC during the Great War Kenneth Lawson; 9. Boundaries and belonging in
conditions of extreme politicization: the Chinese state in private and
public spaces, 1949-1968 Neil Diamant; 10. Reproductions and maintenance of
group boundaries: Why the 'secular' Wtate matters to religious authorities
in Israel Patricia Woods; Part V. Beyond the State: Transnational Forces
and the Challenge to the State: 11. Belonging in the PACE lane: fast
border-crossing and citizenship in the age of neoliberalism Matthew Sparke;
12. Contested boundaries: citizens, states, and the supranational belonging
in the European Union Lisa Conant; 13. Boundaries of the nation-state and
the lure of the Islamic community in Turkey Yesim Arat; Part VI.
Conclusion: Conclusion Beatrice Hibou; Index.