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DESCRIPTION:A guest lecture by Dilan Okcuoglu\, a non-resident visiting fel
 low at CUNY Middle East and Middle Eastern American Centre\, and a consult
 ant at the Council on Strategic Risks.\n\nAbstract:  I use the case of Tur
 key’s Kurdish borderlands to revise theories that address the role of info
 rmal practices and unwritten norms in state-making. I conducted twelve mon
 ths of a political ethnographic study of Turkey’s Kurdish borderlands next
  to Iraq and Iran between 2013 and 2014\, employing participant observatio
 n\, and semi-structured interviews. By exploring people’s everyday practic
 es of state-making\, my article uses informal control as an analytical cat
 egory to engage with the scholarship on the micro-study (bottom-up) of eth
 nic conflict and war. I found that people’s lived experiences of manipulat
 ion\, uncertainty\, and contingency were pervasive in the borderlands and 
 that informal control is not a state weakness\; on the contrary\, it is a 
 source of state-making in contested borderlands where multiple actors inte
 ract but also compete with each other.\n
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LOCATION:Rom 160 (Arts Council Room)\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\,
  H3A 0G5\, 853 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:State-Building and Borderlands.  Informal Control of the Turkish St
 ate on an Everyday Level
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