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.
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.
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.
