Eurasian Borderlands: Spatializing Borders in the Aftermath of State Collapse (Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference)

"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."--Back cover "Acknowledgments"--"Contents"--"List of Contributors" -- "List of Figures" -- "Chapter 1: Introduction: Eurasian Borderlands" -- "Introduction: Eurasian Borderlands" -- "Borderlands" -- "Borders and Boundaries" -- "Eurasia" -- "Soviet Borders" -- "Soviet Territorial Anatomy and the Legacy of Nationality Policy" -- "Border Conflicts and War" -- "Chapter Summaries and Common Themes" -- "Conclusive Remarks: Common Themes and Analytical Perspectives" -- "Border Materiality, Infrastructure and Events" -- "Mobility and Territoriality" -- "Notes" -- "References" -- "Chapter 2: Post-Soviet or Eurasian Lands? Rethinking Analytic Categories in the Ukraineâ#x80;#x93;EU and Russiaâ#x80;#x93;China Borderlands" -- "Introduction" -- "The Margins of Empire" -- "Post-Soviet as a Category of Analysis" -- "Post-Soviet Sociality" -- "Eurasia as a Category of Analysis" -- "Eurasia as a Geopolitical Domain" -- "Eurasia as a Discursive Field" -- "Eurasia as a Space of Bio-Political Control" -- " Conclusion" -- "Notes" -- "References" -- "Chapter 3: â#x80;#x9C;Dead Endâ#x80;#x9D;: A Spatial History of a Border Town in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan" -- "Introduction" -- "Karakol as a Borderland Town" -- "Spatial Histories: Temporality and Connection" -- "From Pre-Soviet to Post-Soviet: Karakol-Przhevalsk-Karakol" -- "â#x80;#x9C;The Township at the Chinese Borderâ#x80;#x9D;" -- "Geography: â#x80;#x9C;Our Mountains and Lakeâ#x80;#x9D;" -- "â#x80;#x9C;Planes Donâ#x80;#x99;t Fly to Us, Trains Donâ#x80;#x99;t Come, Buses Seldomâ#x80;Œ.â#x80;#x9D;" -- "Ashlamfu or Cultural Diversity as a Brand" -- " Conclusion: Border Images, Protection, Limitation, and Nostalgia" -- "Notes" -- "References" -- "Chapter 4: With a Border Fence in the Backyard: Materialization of the Border in the Landscape and the Social Livesâ#x80;#x99; of Border People" -- "Introduction" -- "Kyrgyz/Uzbek Border" -- "Borderline and Its Materiality" Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Introduction: Eurasian Borderlands....Pages 1-25 Post-Soviet or Eurasian Lands? Rethinking Analytic Categories in the Ukraine–EU and Russia–China Borderlands....Pages 27-57 “Dead End”: A Spatial History of a Border Town in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan....Pages 59-86 With a Border Fence in the Backyard: Materialization of the Border in the Landscape and the Social Lives’ of Border People....Pages 87-106 Across the Enguri Border: Lives Connected and Separated by the Borderland Between Georgia and Abkhazia....Pages 107-131 Remembering and Living on the Borderlands in the South Caucasus....Pages 133-158 Time and Contingency in the Anthropology of Borders: On Border as Event in Rural Central Asia....Pages 159-183 Producing Territories: Spatial Practices and Border Effects Between Krasnodar Krai and the Republic of Adygea....Pages 185-212 From Boundaries to Borders: Spatial Practices and State-making; the Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina....Pages 213-239 Back Matter....Pages 241-261