CHAIR
Sofie Bedford
(Uppsala U, Sweden)
PAPERS
Nina Lutterjohann
(U of St Andrews, UK)
A Buffer or a Bluffer? Perceptions, Discourses and Factors
in the Reconceptualization of Conflict Zones
Andrea Peinhopf
(UCL, UK)
Abkhazians Travelling “to Georgia”: An Ethnographic Exploration
of the Success and Failure of the Abkhazian de facto State
Gorkem Aydemir
(George Washington U, US)
Mapping and Telling the Cherny Vxod: Time, Contingency,
and “Senses of Borderness” in the Disputed Periphery of Georgia
Julie George
(Queens College, CUNY, US)
Identity Construction and Proximity to Violence:
Georgianness in an Era of Conflict
DISCUSSANT
Minna Lundgren
(Mid Sweden U)