Loyalty and citizenship : : Ottoman perspectives on its Russian border region (1878-1914) / / Gözde Yazıcı Cörüt.

• Superior document: Transottomanica ; v.6
• VerfasserIn: Cörüt, Gözde Yazıcı,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen : : V & R unipress,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Transottomanica
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (219 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- Map -- Introduction -- Russia's Southern Expansion in the Caucasus until 1878 -- The Treaty of Berlin (13th July, 1878) -- The Treaty of Berlin and the Armenians -- The Hamidian Regime, Islamism and Reform Process -- The Committee of Union and Progress and Reform Process -- The Relevance of the Armenian Reform Issue -- Theoretical Framework -- The Analysis of Strangeness and the Conceptual Insights of the Imperial Borderland Literature -- Dealing with ˋStrangeness' and the Issue of Imperial Citizenship -- Chapter Overview -- Chapter I. State Sovereignty and the Formation of the Russo-Ottoman Border -- Delimiting and Demarcating the Russo-Ottoman border -- The meetings in Erzurum and Oltu in 1889 -- A border village: The Case of Nariman -- Mapping the limits of imperial sovereignties on the Russo-Ottoman border -- The meeting of the Russo-Ottoman border commission in 1912: Lost Maps and Unclear Borders -- Conclusion -- Chapter II. The Ottoman Management of Muslim Mobility across the Russo-Ottoman Border: An Example of Tolerance -- Monitoring the Movement of People on the Russo-Ottoman Borderland -- Ambivalent Muslim Loyalties on the Russo-Ottoman Border -- The Management of Ambivalence on the Russo-Ottoman Border -- The Welcoming Policy of the Ottoman State towards Muslim Population Movements -- Tolerance towards Kurdish Tribes -- Discursive Tools of Struggle against Ambivalences: Erbab-ı Namus and Eshab-ı Su-i-Niyet -- Conclusion -- Chapter III. Overlapping Citizenships on the Russo-Ottoman Border -- The Emergence of the Modern Concept of Citizenship in the Russian and Ottoman Empires -- The Normative Ground and Belonging -- Dual Citizenship as Survival -- Survival Strategies on the Russo-Ottoman Border.

Addressing the Strangeness of Dual Citizenship -- Measuring Loyalty and the Fulfilment of Obligations to the State -- Conclusion -- Chapter IV. The Russo-Ottoman Border as a Barrier: The Case of Ottoman Armenians -- Historical Background: Armenians Straddling the Empires -- Negotiations between the Russian and Ottoman Empires: Ottoman Armenians in the Russian Caucasus -- The Ottoman State and the Illegitimate Mobility of Ottoman Armenians -- The Illegal Flow of Armenians in the Russian Caucasus into Ottoman Lands -- The Totalizing Border Policy: Stigmatizing Armenians as a Potential Threat -- Ottoman Armenians in the Russian Caucasus after the Revolution of 1908 -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.