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Studying Modern Nation‐State in a World‐Historical Perspective: The Instance of I raq
Author(s) -
Taşdemir Yaşin Zehra
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/johs.12078
Subject(s) - contest , context (archaeology) , state (computer science) , perspective (graphical) , epistemology , state formation , sociology , political science , computer science , history , philosophy , artificial intelligence , politics , archaeology , algorithm , law
By examining conceptual and historical approaches on modern state and state formation in the context of I raq, this paper addresses four interrelated methodological aspects of studying state formation (1) to contest the simplicity of E urocentric knowledge production in studying state formation especially in the periphery, (2) to bring capital and nation‐state into a relational analysis and to call for research on how they constitute each other historically and geographically, (3) to integrate methodologically local and world‐historical context in understanding the historical complexity of state formation, (4) to problematize the concepts of “capital relation” in order to recognize nature and transformation of nature in the study of state formation.