Ethnographies of Grey Zones in Eastern Europe: Relations, Borders and Invisibilities

Over the last two decades, Eastern Europe has experienced extensive changes in geo-political relocations and relations leading to everyday uncertainty. Attempts to establish liberal democracies, re-orientations from planned to market economics, and a desire to create 'new states' and internationally minded 'new citizens' has left some in poverty, unemployment and social insecurity, leading them to rely on normative coping and semi-autonomous strategies for security and social guarantees. This anthology explores how grey zones of governance, borders, relations and invisibilities affect contemporary Eastern Europe.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Chapter 1 - Introduction: What Is a Grey Zone and Why Is Eastern Europe One?
pp 1-22
- By Martin Demant Frederiksen, University of Copenhagen, Ida Harboe Knudsen, Aarhus University
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PART I - RELATIONS
pp 23-24
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Chapter 2 - Living in the Grey Zones: When Ambiguity and Uncertainty are the Ordinary
pp 25-40
- By Frances Pine, University of London
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Chapter 3 - Between Starvation and Security: Poverty and Food in Rural Moldova
pp 41-56
- By Jennifer R. Cash, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
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Chapter 4 - Brokering the Grey Zones: Pursuits of Favours in a Bosnian Town
pp 57-72
- By Čarna Brković, New Europe College
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PART II - BORDERS
pp 73-74
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Chapter 5 - Good Neighbours and Bad Fences: Everyday Polish Trading Activities on the EU Border with Belarus
pp 75-88
- By Aimee Joyce, University of London
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Chapter 6 - Bosnian Post-refugee Transnationalism: A Grey Zone of ‘Potentiality’
pp 89-106
- By Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic, University of Dublin
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Chapter 7 - ‘Homeland Is Where Everything Is for the People’: The Rationale of Belonging and Citizenship in the Context of Social Uncertainty
pp 107-122
- By Kristina Šliavaitė, Vytautas Magnus University
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PART III - INVISIBILITIES
pp 123-124
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Chapter 8 - Invisible Connections: On Uncertainty and the (Re)production of Opaque Politics in the Republic of Georgia
pp 125-140
- By Katrine Bendtsen Gotfredsen, Malmö University
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Chapter 9 - The Lithuanian ‘Unemployment Agency’: On Bomžai and Informal Working Practices
pp 141-156
- By Ida Harboe Knudsen, Aarhus University
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Chapter 10 - The Last Honest Bandit: Transparency and Spectres of Illegality in the Republic of Georgia
pp 157-170
- By Martin Demant Frederiksen, University of Copenhagen
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PART IV - BROADER PERSPECTIVES
pp 171-172
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Chapter 11 - Making Grey Zones at the European Peripheries
pp 173-186
- By Sarah Green, University of Helsinki
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Chapter 12 - Coda: Reflections on Grey Theory and Grey Zones
pp 187-198
- By Nils Bubandt, Aarhus University
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List of Contributors
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Index
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Relations, Borders and Invisibilities

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Chapter 1 - Introduction: What Is a Grey Zone and Why Is Eastern Europe One?
pp 1-22

PART I - RELATIONS
pp 23-24

Chapter 2 - Living in the Grey Zones: When Ambiguity and Uncertainty are the Ordinary
pp 25-40

Chapter 3 - Between Starvation and Security: Poverty and Food in Rural Moldova
pp 41-56

Chapter 4 - Brokering the Grey Zones: Pursuits of Favours in a Bosnian Town
pp 57-72

PART II - BORDERS
pp 73-74

Chapter 5 - Good Neighbours and Bad Fences: Everyday Polish Trading Activities on the EU Border with Belarus
pp 75-88

Chapter 6 - Bosnian Post-refugee Transnationalism: A Grey Zone of ‘Potentiality’
pp 89-106

Chapter 7 - ‘Homeland Is Where Everything Is for the People’: The Rationale of Belonging and Citizenship in the Context of Social Uncertainty
pp 107-122

PART III - INVISIBILITIES
pp 123-124

Chapter 8 - Invisible Connections: On Uncertainty and the (Re)production of Opaque Politics in the Republic of Georgia
pp 125-140

Chapter 9 - The Lithuanian ‘Unemployment Agency’: On Bomžai and Informal Working Practices
pp 141-156

Chapter 10 - The Last Honest Bandit: Transparency and Spectres of Illegality in the Republic of Georgia
pp 157-170

PART IV - BROADER PERSPECTIVES
pp 171-172

Chapter 11 - Making Grey Zones at the European Peripheries
pp 173-186

Chapter 12 - Coda: Reflections on Grey Theory and Grey Zones
pp 187-198

List of Contributors
pp 199-200

Index
pp 201-205

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