Urban Violence in the Middle East: between Empire and Nation State

该项目将创建一个英德研究小组，调查从帝国到民族国家过渡期间中东城市中心（奥斯曼帝国，阿拉伯土地，伊朗）的民众和国家暴力。因此，它汇集了两个不同的研究传统，希望扩大任何一方的方法和理论视角。作为研究网络的核心，该项目将对具体案例研究做出原创性的研究贡献，并引发关于城市空间暴力表达的比较讨论，作为国家与社会关系的指标。比较将是共时的（即在同一时间不同的中东背景之间）以及历时的（即在相同的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）亚洲和非洲背景下的城市暴力研究结果进行比较，从而旨在将中东历史纳入其全球背景，以响应区域研究对更普遍的理论讨论作出贡献的呼吁。

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.