Abstract

JOURNAL OF BALKAN AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES 153 acknowledging the limits, Rodogno makes his best efforts to hear the voices of the refugees by stepping into their liminal space and reading between the lines. The seminal question of Spivak, ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ is still conducive to spark new debates in academia. Rodogno contributes to this question at least by discerning the propaganda material pro- duced in reference to the refugee lives from the genuine accounts of the refugees themselves. Another strength of this book is to reinvigorate an obsolete political geography that persistently constituted one of the main fault lines of world politics, namely the Near East. The study covers various relief operation cases on the vast lands stretching from Greece on the west, Caucasus on the north and today’s Middle East on the south. Understanding the flexible borders and shaky ground of the Near East and the new nomenclature of the region today can be suggested as a prerequisite for probing into the contemporary world politics. Reignited rivalries on the region renders Rodogno’s work more significant from the con- temporary point of view. Last but not the least, the valuable insights that the book presents on the