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Migrating borders and moving times explores how crossing borders entails shifting time as well as changing geographical location. Space has long dominated the field of border studies, a prominence which the recent ‘spatial turn’ in social science has reinforced. This book challenges the classic analytical pre-eminence of ‘space’ by focusing on how ‘border time’ is shaped by, shapes and constitutes the borders themselves.
Using original field data from Israel, northern Europe and Europe's south-eastern borders (Kosovo, Albania, Montenegro, Sarajevo, Lesbos), our contributors explore ‘everyday forms of border temporality’ – the ways in which people through their temporal practices manage, shape, represent and constitute the borders across which they move or at which they are made to halt. In these accounts, which are based on fine-tuned ethnographic research sensitive to historical depth and wider political-economic context and transformation, ‘moving’ is understood not only as mobility but as affect, where borders become not just something to be ‘crossed’ but something that is emotionally experienced and ‘felt’.
transition approach that evolved into the ‘regime question’. 43 Indeed, there is an extensive literature on post-Soviet transition, particularly relating to Russia, but also to other former Soviet states, including Georgia and Ukraine. 44 This literature offers the core of what is understood here as ‘the mainstream’, prominent as it is in public policy, think tank and media circles. In attempting to
institutional vacuum in the post-Soviet geopolitical space has both contributed to such problems and impeded their successful resolution. The post-Soviet states have been forced to rebuild themselves by establishing basic institutions of governance and administration. At the same time the massive legitimacy problems they face call for nation building, along either inclusive/ civic or exclusive/ethnic lines. Moreover, the post-Soviet transition is further complicated by its taking place in the context of globalisation and as such is marked by heightened economic
Makarios and led to the catastrophe of 1974. These trajectories of youth into the USSR and the Russian language, on the one hand dovetailed with Cyprus’ established relations with Russians, and on the other solidified those relations for the future, in the face of post-Soviet transition (Yurchak 2006 ). As a member of the board of one of the RoC’s systemic banks, the Russian Cyprus Bank, told me, relations
: the individual gesture of the artist as a marker of uniqueness condensed in abstract brushstrokes nevertheless has an identified monetary value. Grigoryan, with a hint of irony, puts on sale both the (priceless) marker of artistic authority and the monetary value through which the unquantifiable gesture of authorship enters into exchange. Grigoryan’s 193 194 The political aesthetics of the Armenian avant-garde 32 Arman Grigoryan, Armenican Dream, 1999 The revenge of the ‘painterly real’ gesture can be read in the context of the post-Soviet ‘transitional