Urban Violence in the Middle East: between Empire and Nation-State - Städtische Gewalt im Nahen Osten: zwischen Imperium und National Staat

该项目将建立一个英德研究小组，调查中东城市中心(奥斯曼帝国、阿拉伯土地、伊朗)从帝国向民族国家过渡过程中普遍存在的暴力和国家暴力。因此，它将两种截然不同的研究传统结合在一起，希望拓宽双方的方法和理论视角。该项目被设想为研究网络的核心，除了引发关于城市空间暴力表达作为国家与社会关系指标的比较讨论外，还将对具体案例研究做出原创性的研究贡献。这种比较既是共时的(即同时在不同的中东背景之间)，也是历时的(即在相同背景下调查帝国和民族国家的不同背景)。此外，该项目将利用这项研究的结果，将中东的研究结果与欧洲、(其他)亚洲和非洲的城市暴力学术研究结果进行比较，从而将中东历史纳入其全球背景，同时呼吁地区研究为更广泛的理论讨论作出贡献。

This project will create an Anglo-German research team investigating popular and state violence in urban centres of the Middle East (Ottoman Empire, Arab lands, Iran) in the transition from Empire to nation state. It thus brings together two distinct research traditions in the hope of broadening the methodological and theoretical perspective on either side. Conceived as the nucleus of a research network, the project will make an original research contribution on specific case studies in addition to sparking a comparative discussion about the articulation of violence in urban spaces as an indicator of the relations between state and society. The comparison will be both synchronic (i.e. between different Middle Eastern settings at the same time) as well as diachronic (i.e. investigating the different contexts of empire and nation state in the same settings). Furthermore, the project will use the findings of this research to compare the findings on the Middle East with scholarship on urban violence in European, (other) Asian and African contexts and thus aims at integrating Middle Eastern history into its global setting, following the call for regional studies to contribute to more general theoretical discussions.