Eurasian Borderlands: Spatializing Borders in the Aftermath of State Collapse

ISBN-13: 9781137583086 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 261 str.

Tone Bringa; Hege Toje

Opis

This book examines changing and emerging state and state-like borders in the post-Soviet space in the decades following state collapse. This book argues border-making is not only about states physical marking of territory and claims to sovereignty but also about people s spatial practices over time. In order to illustrate how borders come about and are maintained, this book looks at border communities at internal, open administrative borders and borders in the making, as well as physically demarcated international state borders. This book also pays attention to both the spatial and temporal aspects of borders and the interplay between boundaries and borders over time and thus identifies some of the processes at play as space is territorialized in Eurasia in the aftermath of state collapse."

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction: Eurasian Borderlands

Chapter 2 Post-Soviet or Eurasian Lands? Rethinking Analytic Categories in the Ukraine-EU and Russia-China Borderlands

Chapter 3 Dead End: A Spatial History of a Border Town in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan

Chapter 4 With a Border Fence in the Backyard: Materialization of the Border in the Ferghana Valley 

Chapter 5 Across the Enguri Border: Lives Connected and Separated by the Borderland between Georgia and Abkhazia

Chapter 6 Remembering and Living on the Borderlands in the South Caucasus

Chapter 7 Time and Contingency in the Anthropology of Borders: on Border as Event in Rural Central Asia

Chapter 8 Producing territories: spatial practices and border effect between Krasnodar Krai and the Republic of Adygea in Russia

Chapter 9 From Boundaries to Borders: Spatial Practices and State-Making; the Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina

Afterword: Post-Soviet dynamics

O autorze

Tone Bringa is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Hege Toje holds a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her research interests in political anthropology include state formation, mobility and history.