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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK 'Needs That Bind: Materializing Nationality in Post-Otto
 man Regimes'
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DESCRIPTION:Needs That Bind reconsiders the dismantling of the Ottoman Emp
 ire and the construction of new regimes in the decade after World War I\, 
 to understand the consequential connections that remained among the new re
 publican regime in Turkey and neighboring French and British Mandates in S
 yria-Lebanon and Iraq. Orçun Can Okan examines how these new states and t
 heir people managed problems of state succession through diplomatic\, admi
 nistrative\, and legal interactions with and between bureaucracies. He for
 egrounds pressing questions of nationality as they were experienced by a d
 iverse group of social actors\, men and women\, rich and poor.\n\nOkan tra
 cks previously untapped Ottoman records\, now spread across multiple regim
 es\, to investigate claims to retirement pensions\, alimony cases between 
 former spouses who became nationals of different states\, and disputes ove
 r land\, property\, and assets held in pious endowments. It is through the
 se types of interactions and connections\, he argues\, that newly emerged 
 post-Ottoman regimes materialized basic norms and understandings about nat
 ionality—an understanding more similar to subjecthood to state authority
  than rights-based citizenship. With an engaging\, grounded historical nar
 rative\, this book contributes to thinking historically and critically abo
 ut the tangible stakes and practical significance of nationality in times 
 of profound political change and institutional instability.\n\nPublished b
 y Stanford University Press in 2026: https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east
 -studies/needs-bind
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LOCATION:St Antony's College - MEC Boardroom\, Kirdar Building\, MEC Board
 room\, Kirdar Building St Antony's College 68 Woodstock Road Oxford Oxford
 shire OX2 6JF United Kingdom
SPEAKER:Dr Orçun Can Okan (St Antony's College)
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