Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay develop the concept of the aporetic state to describe an
entity that acts like a state even as nonrecognition renders it unrealizable. They argue that …

Antagonistic Tolerance examines patterns of coexistence and conflict amongst members of
different religious communities, using multidisciplinary research to analyze groups who have …

This article studies the contested legal–political dynamics around forced migration flows to
and through an unrecognized state: the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). We …

A growing ethnographic literature demonstrates the mundane practices through which both
the state and sovereignty are performed. This article asks at what point such performances …

The space of exception has been extensively discussed as a location in which governing
technologies are deployed through the suspension and manipulation of the norm. The …

While we usually associate nostalgia with memory, this chapter explores the relationship
between nostalgia and forgetting. Indeed, I propose here that contrary to what we usually …

DESPITE A COMMON BELIEF THAT sovereignty is clear and indivisible, the world is littered
with cases of compromised sovereignty. Enclaves, exclaves, protectorates, and autonomous …

This article analyses patterns of competition between religious groups in urban settings, and
empirical indicators of the dominance of one religious community over another, utilising the …

The role of mimicry in the construction and deconstruction of social identities has enriched
our understanding of power relations considerably. However, as a spatial practice, mimicry …

The majority of literature on wars understandably focuses on the horrific aspects of war, such
as death, destruction, displacement, and trauma. In this article, however, I want to highlight …