Boundaries and belonging : states and societies in the struggle to shapeidentities and local practices / edited by Joel S. Migdal.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mental maps and virtual checkpoints: struggles to construct and maintainstate and social boundaries / Joel S. Migdal -- Do states always favor stasis? The changing status of tribes in the Ottoman Empire / Re?sat Kabasa -- The permeable boundaries of Ottoman Jewry / Sarah Abrevaya Stein -- "Dangerous populations": state territoriality and the constitution of national minorities / Adriana Kemp -- Making Myanmars: language, territory, and belonging in post-socialist Burma / Mary P. Callahan -- Institutionalizing virtual Kurdistan West: transnational networks and ethnic contention in international affairs / Nicole F. Watts -- Challenging boundaries and belongings: "mixed blood" allotment disputes at the turn of the twentieth century / Lauren Basson -- Belonging and not: Rossland, British Columbia, during the great war / Kenneth G. Lawson -- Boundaries and belonging in conditions of extreme politicization: the Chinese state in private and public spaces, 1949-1968 / Neil J. Diamant -- Gender and the reproduction and maintenance of group boundaries: why the "secular" state matters to religious authorities in Israel / Patricia J. Woods -- Passports into credit cards: on the borders and spaces of neoliberal citizenship / Matthew Sparke -- Contested boundaries: citizens, states, and supranational belonging in the European Union / Lisa Conant -- Boundaries of the nation-state and the lure of the Islamic community in Turkey / Yeşim Arat.