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Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)
This session brings together historical and theoretical work that rethinks how political communities are constituted—through religious frontiers, imperial and national forms of sovereignty, emergent state structures, and symbolic struggles over legitimacy. Together, the papers challenge linear narratives of modernity and unitary notions of the state, offering new ways to understand how “the people” and their others are produced and governed over time.
Provincializing Modernity: Empires and People-Polities in a Comparative and Historical Perspective - Sadia Saeed, University of San Francisco
Reimagining Ontology of State Causality - Sourabh Singh, Florida State University
Religious Frontiers and Xenophobia: Evidence From Weimar Germany - Robert Braun, University of California-Berkeley
What's a State for? From Wrongful Innovation to Reform as Religious Duty in Ottoman State Transformation - Vasfiye Betul Toprak, University of Maryland