MESA 2023 in Montreal — Frontier Effects: Borders, Peripheries, and the Territorial Limits of States and Empires in Northern Africa and Southwest Asia

MESA 2023 in Montreal — Frontier Effects: Borders, Peripheries, and the Territorial Limits of States and Empires in Northern Africa and Southwest Asia

Organizer
Matthew H. Ellis, Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Chair in Middle Eastern Studies and International Affairs, Sarah Lawrence College; Jacob Mundy, Peace and Conflict Studies, Colgate University
Venue
Palais des congrès, Montreal
ZIP
QC H2Z 1H2
Location
Montreal
Country
Canada
Takes place
In Attendance
From - Until
02.11.2023 - 05.11.2023
Deadline
12.02.2023
By
Connections Redaktion, Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics, Universität Leipzig

The purpose of this panel is organizing an interdisciplinary, multi-sited dialogue on the practices that constitute borders and peripheries in Northern Africa and Southwest Asia with an eye towards a special journal issue in a relevant transdisciplinary journal.

MESA 2023 in Montreal — Frontier Effects: Borders, Peripheries, and the Territorial Limits of States and Empires in Northern Africa and Southwest Asia

What are the institutional arrangements and organizational forms of human life that create the effect of frontiers? Frontiers are paradoxically geographical zones that imaginatively and materially embody social, economic, and political liminality while otherwise generating immense levels of state and imperial anxiety. Frontiers — the frontier effect — must be produced by ideas, by bodies, by material infrastructures, and by new configurations of human and non-human relations; and yet frontiers are essential spaces of production, making livelihoods and (in)securities possible. The purpose of this panel is organizing an interdisciplinary, multi-sited dialogue on the practices that constitute borders and peripheries in Northern Africa and Southwest Asia with an eye towards a special journal issue in a relevant transdisciplinary journal. We invite MESA members at any professional stage to submit proposed abstracts to us (mellis1@sarahlawrence.edu and jmundy@colgate.edu) by February 12 in order to meet the deadline for MESA proposals on February 16.

Contact (announcement)

mellis1@sarahlawrence.edu
jmundy@colgate.edu

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Published on
03.02.2023
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