Abstract
The Middle East is traditionally under-represented in border studies despite the salience of conflicts involving borders or along sectarian boundaries. The case of Lebanon is a good example of such dividing lines referring to identity building. It conveys the importance of thinking about social and political relations in terms of space, which requires thinking simultaneously about both physical (borders) and symbolic (boundaries) divisions. The six papers of this themed issue, originally presented at the 2012 Centre for Lebanese Studies Workshop, intended to explore the many dimensions of the articulation between collective identity building and border/boundary making. This set of papers participates in the debate on categories, limits and belongings by exploring three dimensions of the theme: space (Meier, Mermier), circulation (Puig, Chatty et al.) and representations (Bizri, Haugbolle) in a multi-disciplinary perspective. They all show how much borders/boundaries are arbitrary constructions but also evocative mental ones in the building of ‘otherness’.
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