Alexis Rappas
Biographic Data
| ID | 2078697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexis Rappas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexis |
| FAMILY NAME | Rappas |
| SIGNATURE | RAPPAS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Koç University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2743-6117 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
İlay Romain Örs , Diaspora of the City. Stories of Cosmopolitanism from Istanbul and Athens. Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Series. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018. xxiv + 264 p
Introduction: Resilience and dissidence in post-Ottoman minority sources
La gauche et l’entente intercommunautaire à Chypre: Histoire de deux courbes asymptotes
À l’occasion du cinquantenaire de l’invasion et de la division de Chypre par la Turquie (1974), il n’est pas inutile de revenir sur les forces politiques qui militent pour la réconciliation entre Chypriotes grecs et Chypriotes turcs et la réunification de l’île. Afin d’évaluer la viabilité, dans les circonstances actuelles, d’un tel projet, cet article propose une rétrospective sur le porte-étendard autoproclamé de cette « patrie commune, » le pa…
Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal, Britain’s Levantine Empire, 1914–1923. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xii + 287 pages
The Fascist Temptation: British and Italian Imperial Entanglements in the Eastern Mediterranean
This article reveals how, in the interwar period, British colonial authorities in Cyprus borrowed from the combination of political authoritarianism and economic development characterising Italian rule in the neighbouring Dodecanese, as both a solution to Greek irredentism and an administration suitable to ‘Mediterranean populations’. British authorities shunned, nonetheless, the chronopolitics and biopolitics buttressing fascist governance, whic…
European Imperial Rule through Ottoman Land Law: British Cyprus, the Italian Dodecanese, and French Mandatory Syria
This paper focuses on the articulation between property, sovereignty, and the construction of new political subjectivities in post-Ottoman provinces. Drawing on the cases of British Cyprus, the Italian Dodecanese, and French Mandatory Syria, it shows that European sovereign claims on these territories were pursued through the perpetuation of Ottoman land laws and the reorganisation of the judicial system responsible for implementing them. Dictate…
Three murders and a mandate: On property and French sovereignty in interwar Syria
This paper is an investigation into a triple homicide in the French Mandate of Syria in 1925. It first suggests that the official decision to single out the murder of three French land registry employees in the midst of the Great Syrian Revolt, a two-year war against French imperial rule, is revealing of the Mandate’s attempts to legitimize its dominion over Syria. It then argues that the capacity in which the three slain agents operated, as empl…
Anna Pouradier Duteil-Loizidou, Chypre au temps de la Révolution Grecque d’après la correspondance consulaire et diplomatique française – Année 1821
Ce volume s’inscrit dans le cadre général, mais chronologiquement un peu à part, de l’œuvre poursuivie depuis près d’une trentaine d’années par Anna Pouradier Duteil-Loizidou. Avec la publication en 1991 du premier tome de Consulat de France à Larnaca. Documents inédits pour servir à l’histoire de Chypre, t. 1, 1660-1696 (Nicosie, Centre de recherche scientifique de Chypre), la directrice en exercice du Centre de recherche scientifique de Chypre …
The Sultan's Domain: British Cyprus' Role in the Redefinition of Property Regimes in the Post-Ottoman Levant
This article argues that property law is the main means through which Britain built its imperial sovereignty on Cyprus and in the post-Ottoman Levant. It charts the development of an official British expertise in Ottoman land legislation following the so-called affair of the Sultan's claims to properties in Cyprus. To settle this matter in the island which they had obtained to ‘occupy’ and ‘administer’ through a treaty with the Sublime Porte, col…
Jewish Refugees in Cyprus and British Imperial Sovereignty in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1933–1949
This paper focuses on the use of the British Colony of Cyprus as a clearing ground for Jewish refugees on route to Palestine before, during, and after the Second World War. While acknowledging the historiographical consensus underscoring Cyprus’ renewed strategic importance in the context of British post-Second World War imperial retreat in the East, the article argues that Jewish transmigration revealed new potential uses for the island which in…
Memorial soliloquies in post-colonial Rhodes and the ghost of Mediterranean cosmopolitanism
This paper is based on a close reading of Greek and Rodesli (Rhodian Jewish) narratives focusing on the time when Rhodes was under Italian (1912–1943) and then German (1943–1945) rule, the last period when religiously diverse communities coexisted in the island. While Greek historiography seeks to vindicate the island’s final integration into the Greek national space, Rodesli memory is meant to preserve the heritage of a community destroyed by th…
Propriété et souverainetés impériale et nationale dans la Méditerranée orientale de l'entre-deux-guerres
Une riche historiographie internationale a mis en lumière le rôle des violences intercommunautaires, des transferts de population et de la redistribution massive de propriétés dans la consolidation des identités nationales dans les États successeurs de l'Empire ottoman pendant l'entre-deux-guerres. En dépit de précautions analytiques, l'essentiel de ces études offre une représentation statocentrée de la nationalisation des appartenances en Médite…
The Transnational Formation of Imperial Rule on the Margins of Europe: 1 British Cyprus and the Italian Dodecanese in the Interwar Period
This article records and offers to interpret a parallel hardening of British and Italian colonial governances in the Eastern Mediterranean in the interwar period. It focuses on the cases of the Dodecanese, an Italian ‘Possedimento’ since 1912, and Cyprus, a British dependency since 1878, lying on the geographical and cultural margins of, and the border between, these two colonial empires. Building on the recurrent cross-references between British…
Cyprus In The 1930S: British Colonial Rule and the Roots of the Cyprus Conflict
Why has the unification of Cyprus proved impossible? The existing literature looks to the 1950s, and the formation of EOKA under George Grivas. Here, Alexis Rappas challenges the dominance of that starting point in the current histories of the island, showing that the key to the conflict between the British Empire and Greek Cypriots lies in the disputes of the 1930s. Cyprus in the 1930s charts the history of the island in this period, and details…
Greeks under European colonial rule: National allegiance and imperial loyalty
How to narrate the experience of the Greeks who lived under European colonial rule? Greek nationalist historiography ignores the colonial dimension and links this experience to the grand narrative of the struggle of unredeemed Greeks against foreign domination. By contrast, revisionist accounts challenge the pervasiveness of ‘national sentiment’ among subjected Greeks and stress the coercive nature of nationalism. Based on micro-analyses of cases…
The Labor Question in Colonial Cyprus, 1936–1941: Political Stakes in a Battle of Denominations
Taking as a starting point two strikes in colonial Cyprus in the 1930s—the miners' strike in 1936 in which both Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots were involved and the all-female spinners' strike in 1938—this paper looks at how the labor movement deeply transformed the political landscape of the island. In a society closely monitored by British colonial authorities and well acquainted with the Greek-Cypriot claim for Enosis, or the political un…
The Sultan's Domain: British Cyprus' Role in the Redefinition of Property Regimes in the Post-Ottoman Levant
This article argues that property law is the main means through which Britain built its imperial sovereignty on Cyprus and in the post-Ottoman Levant. It charts the development of an official British expertise in Ottoman land legislation following the so-called affair of the Sultan's claims to properties in Cyprus. To settle this matter in the island which they had obtained to ‘occupy’ and ‘administer’ through a treaty with the Sublime Porte, col…
Jewish Refugees in Cyprus and British Imperial Sovereignty in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1933–1949
This paper focuses on the use of the British Colony of Cyprus as a clearing ground for Jewish refugees on route to Palestine before, during, and after the Second World War. While acknowledging the historiographical consensus underscoring Cyprus’ renewed strategic importance in the context of British post-Second World War imperial retreat in the East, the article argues that Jewish transmigration revealed new potential uses for the island which in…
Greeks under European colonial rule: National allegiance and imperial loyalty
How to narrate the experience of the Greeks who lived under European colonial rule? Greek nationalist historiography ignores the colonial dimension and links this experience to the grand narrative of the struggle of unredeemed Greeks against foreign domination. By contrast, revisionist accounts challenge the pervasiveness of ‘national sentiment’ among subjected Greeks and stress the coercive nature of nationalism. Based on micro-analyses of cases…
The Labor Question in Colonial Cyprus, 1936–1941: Political Stakes in a Battle of Denominations
Taking as a starting point two strikes in colonial Cyprus in the 1930s—the miners' strike in 1936 in which both Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots were involved and the all-female spinners' strike in 1938—this paper looks at how the labor movement deeply transformed the political landscape of the island. In a society closely monitored by British colonial authorities and well acquainted with the Greek-Cypriot claim for Enosis, or the political un…
Greeks under European colonial rule: National allegiance and imperial loyalty
How to narrate the experience of the Greeks who lived under European colonial rule? Greek nationalist historiography ignores the colonial dimension and links this experience to the grand narrative of the struggle of unredeemed Greeks against foreign domination. By contrast, revisionist accounts challenge the pervasiveness of ‘national sentiment’ among subjected Greeks and stress the coercive nature of nationalism. Based on micro-analyses of cases…
Cyprus In The 1930S: British Colonial Rule and the Roots of the Cyprus Conflict
Why has the unification of Cyprus proved impossible? The existing literature looks to the 1950s, and the formation of EOKA under George Grivas. Here, Alexis Rappas challenges the dominance of that starting point in the current histories of the island, showing that the key to the conflict between the British Empire and Greek Cypriots lies in the disputes of the 1930s. Cyprus in the 1930s charts the history of the island in this period, and details…
The Transnational Formation of Imperial Rule on the Margins of Europe: 1 British Cyprus and the Italian Dodecanese in the Interwar Period
This article records and offers to interpret a parallel hardening of British and Italian colonial governances in the Eastern Mediterranean in the interwar period. It focuses on the cases of the Dodecanese, an Italian ‘Possedimento’ since 1912, and Cyprus, a British dependency since 1878, lying on the geographical and cultural margins of, and the border between, these two colonial empires. Building on the recurrent cross-references between British…
Propriété et souverainetés impériale et nationale dans la Méditerranée orientale de l'entre-deux-guerres
Une riche historiographie internationale a mis en lumière le rôle des violences intercommunautaires, des transferts de population et de la redistribution massive de propriétés dans la consolidation des identités nationales dans les États successeurs de l'Empire ottoman pendant l'entre-deux-guerres. En dépit de précautions analytiques, l'essentiel de ces études offre une représentation statocentrée de la nationalisation des appartenances en Médite…
Anna Pouradier Duteil-Loizidou, Chypre au temps de la Révolution Grecque d’après la correspondance consulaire et diplomatique française – Année 1821
Ce volume s’inscrit dans le cadre général, mais chronologiquement un peu à part, de l’œuvre poursuivie depuis près d’une trentaine d’années par Anna Pouradier Duteil-Loizidou. Avec la publication en 1991 du premier tome de Consulat de France à Larnaca. Documents inédits pour servir à l’histoire de Chypre, t. 1, 1660-1696 (Nicosie, Centre de recherche scientifique de Chypre), la directrice en exercice du Centre de recherche scientifique de Chypre …
The Sultan's Domain: British Cyprus' Role in the Redefinition of Property Regimes in the Post-Ottoman Levant
This article argues that property law is the main means through which Britain built its imperial sovereignty on Cyprus and in the post-Ottoman Levant. It charts the development of an official British expertise in Ottoman land legislation following the so-called affair of the Sultan's claims to properties in Cyprus. To settle this matter in the island which they had obtained to ‘occupy’ and ‘administer’ through a treaty with the Sublime Porte, col…
Jewish Refugees in Cyprus and British Imperial Sovereignty in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1933–1949
This paper focuses on the use of the British Colony of Cyprus as a clearing ground for Jewish refugees on route to Palestine before, during, and after the Second World War. While acknowledging the historiographical consensus underscoring Cyprus’ renewed strategic importance in the context of British post-Second World War imperial retreat in the East, the article argues that Jewish transmigration revealed new potential uses for the island which in…
Memorial soliloquies in post-colonial Rhodes and the ghost of Mediterranean cosmopolitanism
This paper is based on a close reading of Greek and Rodesli (Rhodian Jewish) narratives focusing on the time when Rhodes was under Italian (1912–1943) and then German (1943–1945) rule, the last period when religiously diverse communities coexisted in the island. While Greek historiography seeks to vindicate the island’s final integration into the Greek national space, Rodesli memory is meant to preserve the heritage of a community destroyed by th…
Three murders and a mandate: On property and French sovereignty in interwar Syria
This paper is an investigation into a triple homicide in the French Mandate of Syria in 1925. It first suggests that the official decision to single out the murder of three French land registry employees in the midst of the Great Syrian Revolt, a two-year war against French imperial rule, is revealing of the Mandate’s attempts to legitimize its dominion over Syria. It then argues that the capacity in which the three slain agents operated, as empl…
The Fascist Temptation: British and Italian Imperial Entanglements in the Eastern Mediterranean
This article reveals how, in the interwar period, British colonial authorities in Cyprus borrowed from the combination of political authoritarianism and economic development characterising Italian rule in the neighbouring Dodecanese, as both a solution to Greek irredentism and an administration suitable to ‘Mediterranean populations’. British authorities shunned, nonetheless, the chronopolitics and biopolitics buttressing fascist governance, whic…
European Imperial Rule through Ottoman Land Law: British Cyprus, the Italian Dodecanese, and French Mandatory Syria
This paper focuses on the articulation between property, sovereignty, and the construction of new political subjectivities in post-Ottoman provinces. Drawing on the cases of British Cyprus, the Italian Dodecanese, and French Mandatory Syria, it shows that European sovereign claims on these territories were pursued through the perpetuation of Ottoman land laws and the reorganisation of the judicial system responsible for implementing them. Dictate…
La gauche et l’entente intercommunautaire à Chypre: Histoire de deux courbes asymptotes
À l’occasion du cinquantenaire de l’invasion et de la division de Chypre par la Turquie (1974), il n’est pas inutile de revenir sur les forces politiques qui militent pour la réconciliation entre Chypriotes grecs et Chypriotes turcs et la réunification de l’île. Afin d’évaluer la viabilité, dans les circonstances actuelles, d’un tel projet, cet article propose une rétrospective sur le porte-étendard autoproclamé de cette « patrie commune, » le pa…
Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal, Britain’s Levantine Empire, 1914–1923. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xii + 287 pages
İlay Romain Örs , Diaspora of the City. Stories of Cosmopolitanism from Istanbul and Athens. Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Series. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018. xxiv + 264 p
Introduction: Resilience and dissidence in post-Ottoman minority sources
Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · History (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · History (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Colonialism (7 works) · Cyprus History, Politics, Society (7 works) · Sociology (6 works)