Community, Change and Border Towns (9780815358848)

This book provides an interdisciplinary approach to power, inclusion/exclusion and hierarchy in a Turkish border town, with a focus on the impact of nation-state border on social stratification and change.

Through the lens of ethnographic research and oral history, the book explores social mobility among various strata within the context of transition from Ottoman rule to the Republican regime, in order to reveal culturally informed strategies of border dwellers in coming to grips with new border contexts. It is suggested that the border perspective will move the social analysis beyond "methodological territorialism" and provide a theoretical framework that explores social change at the intersection of local, national and transnational processes.

This book will appeal to readers interested in borders and circulations, social structure and power relations in border regions, as well as transnational shadow networks in the Turkish/Middle Eastern context. The book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of border anthropology, political and economic geography, studies of globalization and transnationalism, anthropology of illegality and Turkish and Middle Eastern studies. It will be a useful grounding for humanitarian professionals who are learning about the social and economic landscape of border towns.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 200 pages
• Dimensions 159 x 235 x 19.05mm | 454g
• Publication date 29 Jun 2018
• Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
• Imprint CRC Press Inc
• Publication City/Country Bosa Roca, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note 6 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
• ISBN10 0815358849
• ISBN13 9780815358848

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