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This book investigates how borders in former Soviet Union territories have evolved and shifted in the thirty years since the end of the Cold War. It will be of interest to researchers across border studies, politics, geography, social anthropology, history, Eastern European Studies, Central Asian Studies, and Caucasian Studies.
List of contents
Part 1: Dynamics of Bordering in the Post-Soviet Space 1. Dynamics of Bordering in the Post-Soviet Space over the Last 30 Years
Beate Eschment, Ketevan Kutsishvili, Sabine von Löwis
2. Between the 'Opening to the West' and the Trauma of Re-Bordering: Towards a Genealogy of Post-Soviet State Border Studies
Tatiana Zhurzhenko 3.The Territorial Challenge in the Early Soviet State
Stephan Rindlisbacher
4. Dialoguing Borders in the Post-Soviet Space through Citizen Science - Ukrainian Borderland Perspectives Johanna Jaschik, Machteld Venken
Part 2: Western part 5. Within and Across Borders: Trust and Distrust in Russia's Exclave of Kaliningrad Rita Sanders
6. Transnistria: The Everyday of a De Facto Border Mikhail I. Klyuchnikov, Simon G. Pavlyuk, Nikita L. Turo
Part 3: South Caucasus 7. Experiencing the Border, Encountering the State: The Ingiloy at the Azerbajani-Georgian Borderland Nino Aivazhvili-Gehne 8. Borderisation of South Ossetia: The Perspective of the Border Population Ariane Bachelet 9. Connected and Disconnected by the Border: The Shaping of the Turkish-Georgian Borderland Giorgi Cheishvili
Part 4: Central Asia 10. Rethinking the Meaning of Neighbourhood: The Transformation of the Fergana Valley's Transborder Infrastructure Asel Murzakulova 11. Integration vs Disintegration: State Borders and Border Conflicts in the Isfara Valley Saodat Olimova, Muzaffar Olimov 12. Post-Soviet Decline or China-Induced Prosperity? Agricultural and Socio-Economic Change in the Kazakhstan-China Borderlands Henryk Alff
About the author
Sabine von Löwis is a senior researcher and head of the 'Conflict Dynamics and Border Regions' research cluster at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) in Berlin, Germany.
Beate Eschment is a Central Asia specialist and researcher at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) in Berlin, Germany.
Summary
This book investigates how borders in former Soviet Union territories have evolved and shifted in the thirty years since the end of the Cold War. It will be of interest to researchers across border studies, politics, geography, social anthropology, history, Eastern European Studies, Central Asian Studies, and Caucasian Studies.
