@inbook {3738,
	title = {"The Men of Ura are a Heavy Burden Upon Your Subject!{\textquotedblright}: The Administration andManagement of Strangers and Foreigners in Ugarit.},
	booktitle = {A Stranger in the House {\textendash} The Crossroads III.},
	year = {2019},
	pages = {197-220},
	abstract = {The Late Bronze Age city of Ugarit has long been identified as a location of ancient cosmopolitanism,\&nbsp;where different people from around the eastern Mediterranean and Near East met\&nbsp;and interacted. Given the longstanding excavations of the site, the voluminous textual record that\&nbsp;has been recovered, and the long history of scholarship, the site offers a unique opportunity to explore\&nbsp;the dynamics of {\textquotedblleft}foreignness{\textquotedblright} in a Late Bronze Age context where the presence of foreigners\&nbsp;was, if not normative, expected. Using insights from critical theory derived from the discipline of\&nbsp;Geography, this paper explores how, in Engin Isin{\textquoteright}s terms, the city is not where difference is found\&nbsp;but rather where difference is made (labeled and reified), especially through what Julie Young has\&nbsp;called {\textquotedblleft}spatial practices and technologies of governance{\textquotedblright}. Through the examination of locations\&nbsp;of every day encounters, this paper shall explore how foreigners are recognized as such, how their\&nbsp;relations with non-foreigners are managed (explicitly and implicitly), how different scales of self\&nbsp;and otherness are created and maintained, how these constructed identities are naturalized, and\&nbsp;what modalities emerge or are imposed to mediate these relationships. Rather than seeking to\&nbsp;identify a monolithic approach to foreignness, by examining different examples of micropublic\&nbsp;interactions (such as in moments of palatial administration), this paper seeks to untangle some of\&nbsp;the multi-scalar and multi-semiotic aspects of foreignness at Ugarit.}
}
