Experts and Expertise in the Mandates of the League of Nations: Figures, fields and tools

Presentation

Through the prism of League of Nations mandates, this book examines the emergence of the international level as a framework for open and procedural inter-state decision making to govern a world of overlapping connections, flows and structures at different scales. It describes expert profiles and sheds light on the complex relationship between them and the mandating institutions to define the norms of expertise. It highlights their reception in an asymmetric dialectic opposing experts and counter-experts, local communities and mandatory authorities.

Editors

Philippe Bourmaud is a lecturer at Université Jean Moulin – Lyon III. He has taught in Nablus and conducted research into the history of medicine in the Middle East. He is now looking at social constructions around alcohol in the contemporary Middle East and the Arab cultural presence in Istanbul over the course of history.

Norig Neveu is a researcher at the IREMAM laboratory of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Her research began with a study of the holy sites of southern Jordan, after which she worked on a connected history of religious authorities in the Middle East since the late 19th century. She is also interested in migrant solidarity networks.

Chantal Verdeil is a professor at Inalco and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). She first researched the Jesuit mission in Lebanon, and then Christian missions in the Maghreb and the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries. She is now looking at the history of education in the Middle East.

374 pages
16 x 24 cm
Publication: 13/08/2020
ISBN: 9782858313464