A Sea of Transience: Poetics, Politics and Aesthetics along the Black Sea Coast

Published by Berghahn Books 2023

A Sea of Transience

Poetics, Politics and Aesthetics along the Black Sea Coast

Edited by: TAMTA KHALVASHI and Martin Demant Frederiksen

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800737877

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About this book

Transience is found in every meeting and form of coexistence between people and things that live and exist by, or move across or along, the Black Sea. It may come in various forms and guises, from de facto states, tourism, migration, trafficking or military troops, and it needs to be written and captured in sensuous, affective and imaginative ways. With particular attention to poetics, politics and aesthetics, this volume focuses on the scales of transient moments and histories, and enables readers to see and sense the many forms of transience that occur in a given landscape, sea or space.

Author / Editor information

Tamta Khalvashi is Professor of Anthropology and the Head of the PhD Program of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ilia State University in Georgia.

Martin Demant Frederiksen is Associate Professor in anthropology at the Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University. He is the author of An Anthropology of Nothing in Particular (Zero Books, 2018).

Tamta Khalvashi is Professor of Anthropology and the Head of the PhD Program of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ilia State University in Georgia.

Reviews

“The book is one of a kind, beautifully written and curated, and moreover original in its theoretical and empirical insights.” • Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction. Transience and the Sea Martin Demant Frederiksen and Tamta Khalvashi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I Transience and Poetics
Tide 1 Taking the Cure at the Black Sea Katherine Verdery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 1 The Black Sea ‘Moments’ and ‘Coexistence on the Move’ in Transit Vera Skvirskaja Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter 2 Transient Togetherness in Batumi: Being a Sailor’s Wife Elene Gavashelishvili Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
Chapter 3 Complex Intimacies Sex Work, Human Trafficking and Romance between Italy and the Black Sea Coast of Romania Trine Mygind Korsby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
Tide 2 Batumi (Prayer to the Sea) Giorgi Maisuradze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Part II Transience and Politics
Tide 3 The Black Sea from Crimea: Transience and Dyschronicity Greta Lynn Uehling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Chapter 4 Making Revolutionary Consciousness Transient: Altering Political Identities in Turkey’s Black Sea Towns Christopher Houston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
Chapter 5 Transient In-Betweenness: Conflicting Present and Futures in the De Facto Republic of Abkhazia Mikel J.H. Venhovens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Part III Transience and Aesthetics
Tide 4 Boat with a Single Square Sail Anna Dziapshipa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Chapter 6 Makeshift Boats: Transience, Turbulence and the Sea of Mourning Tamta Khalvashi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Chapter 7 Fishers, Sea Snails and Dolphins: The Changing Context of Transient Inter-Species Relations in the Black Sea Caroline Humphrey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Chapter 8 Svetlana by the Shore: Stones, Dys/Appearances and Un/Common Grounds in a City of Transience Martin Demant Frederiksen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Tide 5 The Refugees Stephanos Papadopoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Conclusion Black Sea Matters: Transience and Phanta-sea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 216
Keywords: Anthropology (General); Sociology; Environmental Studies (General)

eBook

Published: February 10, 2023
ISBN: 9781800737877