The Social Life of the Law in the Late Russian Empire
12. Dezember 2013
Supervision and Sovereignty after 1905
Vortrag der Leibnizpreis-Forschungsstelle „Globale Prozesse“
Prof. Dr. Jane Burbank lehrt Russische und Slawische Geschichte an der New York University. Ihr aktuelles Buch „Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference“, das sie zusammen mit Frederick Cooper verfasste, hat 2011 den World History Association's Book Prize gewonnen.
Abstract
The lecture explores the workings of the legal system in a large, multi-ethnic, multi-confessional region of the Russian empire. Jane Burbank addresses questions concerning sovereignty and the role of intermediaries in an imperial context by examining the “middle” level of law – the dense web of communications that in principle assured coordination of the government’s different services.
Cases from the Kazan region (today’s Tatarstan) display the intersecting actions of the political police, the governor’s office, and local officials as they dealt with reports of subversion. The exposed connections between the middle level of government and “society” at a very local level allows us to envision how sovereignty was both challenged and defended in the Russian empire in the early 20th century.
Do, 12. Dezember 2013, 18.00 Uhr
Universität Konstanz, Hörsaal A 701
Kontakt
Forschungsstelle „Globale Prozesse“ globale-prozesse[at]uni-konstanz.de