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The Swedish Research Institute, 2015. New. Brandell, Inga; Carlson,Marie; Cetrez, Önver A. n/a What is the relationship between borders and knowledge? How do changes in territorial and social borders affect knowledges epistemic boundaries; how do changed knowledge boundaries affect physical borders? Which is more resilient; which seems to change most easily? These are the questions addressed by the fourteen chapters in this volume. The volume uses case studies, based on both historical and contemporary sources, to highlight processes of knowledge production within the social sciences and humanities. Our focus is on Middle Eastern societies and peoples Circassian, Assyrian, Turkish, Arab, Kurdish
living around or having moved north from the Mediterranean. One central subject is the influence of migration and travel on the relationship between the geographic and linguistic borders established by nation-builders, and those constructed by scholars, travellers and commentators. A second is the…
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