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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2023] Making and Reappropriating Imperial Geographies. Transregional Perspectives from Eastern Europe and the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Until the early twentieth century, imperial formations shaped Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Imperial spatial images, i.e., notions of spheres of interest and "buffer zones" and related justification strategies for expansionist policies and civilizing missions, structured the mental geographies in these large regions. When empires such as the Russian or Ottoman Empire collapsed during the long First World War, these concepts of space seemed to have been overwritten by post-imperial notions of order based on the idea of national sovereignty and the stability of borders. The example of the Soviet Union, however, shows that ideas of expansion and imperial hierarchies of spatiality remained powerful during this period. Since the 1990s, a reappropriation and partial recoding of imperial images of space can be discerned in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, the purpose of which is to legitimize a hegemonic foreign policy, but also in part to revise borders by force.
The panel analyzes these developments with a focus on neo-imperial argumentation strategies in contemporary Russia and actor logics referred to as "neo-Ottomanism" in contemporary Turkey. The starting hypothesis is that these processes can only be fully grasped in a trans-epochal and trans-regional perspective, which is why the individual lectures span an arc from the 16th century to the present and consider developments from present-day Poland to Iran. This broad perspective aims to provide new insights, informed by cultural history, into current dynamics of conflict and violence in Ukraine, the Caucasus and Syria. At the same time, the discussion will focus on how, in a situation of rival claims to power, a historical factuality presented to the general public as unquestionable is to be discursively generated.
Der Beitrag Making and Reappropriating Imperial Geographies. Transregional Perspectives from Eastern Europe and the Middle East erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2023.
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