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Introduction: Eurasian Borderlands

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Eurasian Borderlands

Part of the book series: Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference ((ATSIAD))

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This book examines changing and emerging borders in the post-Soviet spaces in the decades following their collapse. We argue that physical border-making and “border work” is not only about states’ physical marking of territory and claims to sovereignty but about people’s, particularly borderlanders’, spatial practices over time. In order to illustrate how borders come about, are maintained and contested, we look at border communities at both internal, open administrative borders and borders in the making, as well as at physically demarcated international and de facto state borders. We pay attention to both the spatial and temporal aspects of borders and the interplay between boundaries and borders over time, and identify some of the processes at play as space is territorialized in the aftermath of state collapse.

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  1. Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Tone Bringa & Hege Toje

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    Tone Bringa

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    Hege Toje

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Bringa, T., Toje, H. (2016). Introduction: Eurasian Borderlands. In: Bringa, T., Toje, H. (eds) Eurasian Borderlands. Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58309-3_1

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