Ethnographies of Grey Zones in Eastern Europe - Relations, Borders and Invisibilities

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Ida Harboe Knudsen and Martin Demant Frederiksen Klappentext Over the last two decades, Eastern European countries have experienced extensive changes in geo-political relocations and relations leading to everyday uncertainty. Based on ethnographic cases, this anthology explores how grey zones of governance, borders, relations and invisibilities affect everyday life in contemporary Eastern Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: What Is a Grey Zone and Why is Eastern Europe One? (Martin Demant Frederiksen and Ida Harboe Knudsen); 2. Living in the Grey Zones: When Ambiguity and Uncertainty Are the Ordinary (Frances Pine); 3. Between Starvation and Security: Poverty and Food in Rural Moldova (Jennifer R. Cash); 4. Brokering the Grey Zones: Pursuits of Favours in a Bosnian Town (¿arna Brkovi¿); 5. Good Neighbours and Bad Fences: Everyday Polish Trading Activities on the EU Border with Belarus (Aimee Joyce); 6. Bosnian Post-Refugee Transnationalism: A Grey Zone of Potentiality (Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic); 7. "Homeland is Where Everything Is for the People": The Rationale of Belonging and Citizenship in the Context of Social Uncertainty (Kristina Šliavait¿); 8. Invisible Connections: On Uncertainty and the (Re)production of Opaque Politics in the Republic of Georgia (Katrine Bendtsen Gotfredsen); 9. The Lithuanian "Unemployment Agency": On Bomžai and Informal Working Practices (Ida Harboe Knudsen); 10. The Last Honest Bandit: Transparency and Spectres of Illegality in the Republic of Georgia (Martin Demant Frederiksen); 11. Making Grey Zones at the European Peripheries (Sarah Green); 12. Coda: Reflections on Grey Theory and Grey Zones (Nils Bubandt); Index

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• Authors: Ida Frederiksen Harboe Knudsen
• Assisted by: Martin Demant Frederiksen (Editor), Frederiksen Martin Demant (Editor), Ida Harboe Knudsen (Editor), Harboe Knudsen Ida (Editor), Ida Harboe Knudsen (Editor)
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2015
• EAN: 9781783084135
• ISBN: 978-1-78308-413-5
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Anthem Series on Russian, East; Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet