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"Rethinking the Colonial State in the Middle East"
Call for Papers: Panel for BRISMES 2009
Recent years have seen a new wave of approaches to understanding
state-society relations, from ethnographic projects focusing on informal
politics and the everyday state, to the historical geography of
constructing national economies, to the state/space school within
international political economy. These new approaches have rarely been
applied to the study of colonial states in the Middle East, which often
remain wedded to a neo-Weberian understanding of the state. This panel
seeks to rethink the Middle Eastern colonial state from these new
perspectives in political science, IR, historical sociology, political
sociology, anthropology, history and related disciplines.
Papers addressing the following themes are particularly welcome:
* Space: borders, frontiers, multi-scalar frameworks, urban planning,
spatial practices
* The Everyday State: ethnography, popular politics, bottom-up
approaches
* State Power: military force, productive/repressive power, colonialism
and hegemony,
* Public & Private Boundaries
* Critical and post-structuralist analyses
* The 'colonial state' as an analytic category: conceptual and
theoretical perspectives
The 'colonial state' may be interpreted broadly, encompassing
19th/20th-century, neo-colonial and (potentially) certain contemporary
state forms (e.g. Iraq).
Papers will be submitted as a panel proposal for the annual conference
of the British Society for Middle East Studies, which will be held in
Manchester, England on 4-6 July 2009. Details are available on
http://www.dur.ac.uk/brismes/
Abstracts of 250 words and brief biographical notes should be sent by 25
March 2009 to Daniel Neep, Dept of Politics, University of Exeter at
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Dr Daniel Neep
Lecturer in International & Middle East Studies
Department of Politics
University of Exeter
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Exeter EX4 4RJ
Tel. +44 (0)1392 263175
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