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SUMMARY:The House Always Wins: Arms Trafficking\, Settler Capitalism\, and
  the Making of Ottoman Jolan\, 1878-1918 - Dr Ayşe Polat (Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:This talk builds on the oral historical trajectory of Abou Sha
 psugh\, a Circassian arms trafficker in the turn of the century Jolan\, to
  reconstruct the sectarian economy of arms trafficking and settler capital
 ism in the late Ottoman Empire. I first discuss the concurrent settlement 
 and armament of Circassian refugees in Syria. The arrival of Circassian re
 fugees in the region marked an expansion of the imperial settlement policy
  in 1878. From thereon\, growing refugee settlements constituted a social 
 experiment that pitted them against the ahali-i kadime\, or\, the native i
 nhabitants of the region. The settlers instituted and expanded a new regim
 e of private property and agrarian production. The exclusivity and inviola
 bility of settlers’ property engendered conflict within and outside of t
 he community proper\, as inter- and intra-communal relations were brutalis
 ed by the state-led introduction\, circulation\, and distribution of arms.
 \n\nI then reflect on how the circulation of arms shapes how violence is s
 ocially and politically distributed. I analyse the moments when armed viol
 ence becomes a constitutive aspect of social relations based on inequity\,
  inequality\, and difference. I look at two foundational moments in the di
 stribution of arms and the making of social hierarchies in the Golan Heigh
 ts: the Circassian-Druze War of 1895\, and the 1908 Young Turk Revolution.
  I contend that these two events came to crystallise the sectarian and rac
 ial tensions that exist between settlers/natives\, and masters/slaves\, in
  the late Ottoman Jolan. I further argue that the Ottoman government only 
 intervened in and reconstituted these violent intimacies between settlers 
 and natives\, masters and slaves\, to serve the ends of a securitarian ord
 er based on the primacy of private property.\nSpeakers:\nDr Ayşe Polat (O
 xford)
LOCATION:Balliol College (Old Common Room)\, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/bc861a2f-a5e2-4161-9320-d85d829bf7d5/
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