Frontières et pouvoir d’État: La frontière turco-syrienne dans les années 1920 et 30

Translated title of the contribution: Borders and State Power: Turkish-Syrian border in the 1920s and 30s

Seda Altuğ, Benjamin White

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Abstract

This article proposes to study the boundaries of the Turkish-Syrian border in the 1920s and 1930s to illustrate the dynamic relationship between the development of contemporary boundaries - fixed and precise lines, defining well-defined territories - and development of the nation state. In Turkey, the definition of the border was part of the extension of the power of the new republican state on the territory it claimed. The border also played an important role in the nationalist discourse of the Republic, as used to define not only the territory of the State, but also groups and populations need to be excluded. In Syria, where the demarcation of the border played a similar role in the extension of the power of the state attorney, she played a role in the more discursive Syrian Arab nationalist discourse in the discourse of power agent.
Translated title of the contributionBorders and State Power: Turkish-Syrian border in the 1920s and 30s
Original languageFrench
Pages (from-to)91-104
Number of pages14
Journal Revue d'Histoire du Theatre
Volume3
Issue number103
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2009

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