SCB State-building and Control in Borderlands

我的研究项目“边境地区的国家建设和控制（SCB）”是第一个旨在通过对土耳其库尔德边境地区人民领土经验的研究来理解和解释正式和非正式控制机制的项目。在这项创新的跨学科研究中，我以土耳其与伊拉克、伊朗和叙利亚的边境地区为例，探索在饱受战争蹂躏的边境和边境地区，地方层面上的国家建立的日常实践。通过围绕领土的网络进行国家控制的问题解决了政治、经济、文化、人口和司法实践中对土地财产制度的国家建设的复杂必要性。它通过检查国家实践，如土地登记和地籍程序，促进定居政策，边境政策，流离失所，新村创建和景观国有化来做到这一点。因此，问题是：土耳其国家在其边境地区的权威和合法性是如何被领土控制措施、不同群体对权威的竞争主张和人们的日常经历之间的复杂关系所塑造的？SCB采用混合的方法，包括过程追踪、多地点人种学，以及对土耳其库尔德边境地区的村民、国内流离失所者、活动家、律师和政府官员的定性访谈，通过对土地和财产的叙述和情感进行分析，揭示了人们的领土经历。特别是，国家、人民和土地之间关系的性别动态将被绘制出来，填补现有文献中的一个重要空白。这个创新的话题为政治科学和侨民研究增加了重要的奖学金，无论是在方法上还是在主题上。这样一项经验丰富的研究对于致力于和平与冲突研究的政策制定者、学者和实践者来说非常重要。

My research project, "State-building and Control in Borderlands (SCB)," is the first that aims to understand and explain formal andinformal control mechanisms through an examination of people's territorial experiences in the Kurdish borderlands of Turkey. In thisinnovative and interdisciplinary research, I use the case of Turkey's borderlands with Iraq, Iran, and Syria to explore everyday practicesof state-making at the local level in war-torn borders and borderlands. The question of state control through networks aroundterritoriality addresses the complex imperatives of political, economic, cultural, demographic, and judicial practices of state-buildingover the property regime of land. It does this through examining state practices such as land registration and cadastral procedures onthe promotion of settlement policies, border policies, displacement, new village creation, and landscape nationalization. Thequestion, therefore, is: How are the Turkish state's authority and legitimacy in its borderlands shaped by the complex relationshipsbetween territorial control measures, competing claims over authority by different groups, and people's everyday experiences? Usingmixed methods, including process-tracing, multi-sited ethnography, and qualitative interviews with villagers, internally displacedpeople, activists, lawyers, and state officials in Turkey's Kurdish borderlands, the SCB unpacks people's territorial experiences byunpacking the narratives of, and emotions about, land and property. In particular, the gendered dynamics of the relationshipbetween the state, people, and land will be mapped, filling an important gap in the existing literature. This innovative topic adds vitalscholarship to political science and diaspora studies, both in its methods and its subject. Such an empirically rich study will beimportant for policymakers, scholars, and practitioners committed to peace and conflict studies.