The biopolitical governmentality of nation-state projects ranges from managing ethnic and racial difference to instituting processes of modernization, often seen as concomitant with Westernization. The transgressions of everyday life and cultural production that expose the limits of such projects are the concerns of two recent texts that consider the Middle East in relation to the United States from the perspectives of the Iranian diaspora and Turkish public culture and folklore. From the limits of whiteness to the limits of Westernization, NedaMaghbouleh and Perin E. Gürel’s books demonstrate how figures and concepts are constructed and mobilized across time and space and how attention to the local reveals the disconnects and transgressions of governmental, imperial, and nationalist discourses and regimes. Maghbouleh’s multisited analysis exposes the liminality of Iranianness in a North American ethnic and racial schema in which it is included within the legal and

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中东和北美边界的“野蛮西化”与阈限种族化

民族国家项目的生命政治治理范围从管理民族和种族差异到建立现代化进程，通常被视为伴随着西化。暴露出此类项目局限性的日常生活和文化生产的违法行为是最近两份文本所关注的问题，这些文本从伊朗侨民和土耳其公共文化和民间传说的角度考虑中东与美国的关系。从白人的界限到西化的界限，NedaMaghbouleh 和 Perin E. Gürel 的书展示了人物和概念是如何跨越时空构建和动员的，以及对地方的关注如何揭示政府、帝国和民族主义话语的脱节和越界和制度。