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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.
“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)
TAMTA KHALVASHI is Professor of Anthropology at Ilia State University in Georgia. She is also the Society for the Humanities Fellow at Cornell University (2022-2023).
List of Figures
Introduction: Transience and the Sea
Martin Demant Frederiksen and Tamta Khalvashi
Part I: Transience and Poetics
Tide 1. Taking the Cure at the Black Sea
Katherine Verdery
Chapter 1. The Black Sea ‘Moments’ and ‘Coexistence on the Move’ in Transit
Vera Skvirskaja
Chapter 2. Transient Love in Batumi: Being a Sailor’s Wife
Elene Gavashelishvili
Chapter 3. Complex Intimacies: Sex Work, Human Trafficking and Romance between Italy and the Black Sea Coast of Romania
Trine Mygind Korsby
Tide 2. Batumi (Prayer to the Sea)
Giorgi Maisuradze
Part II. Transience and Politics
Tide 3. The Black Sea from Crimea: Transience and Dyschronicity
Greta Lynn Uehling
Chapter 4. Making Revolutionary Consciousness Transient: Altering Political Identities in Turkey’s Black Sea Towns
Christopher Houston
Chapter 5. Transient In-betweenness: Conflicting Present and Futures in the De Facto Republic of Abkhazia
Mikel J.H. Venhovens
Part III. Transience and Aesthetics
Tide 4. Boat with a Single Square Sail
Anna Dziapshipa
Chapter 6. Makeshift Boats: Transience, Turbulence and the Sea of Mourning
Tamta Khalvashi
Chapter 7. Fishers, Sea Snails and Dolphins: The Changing Context of Transient Inter-Species Relations in the Black Sea
Caroline Humphrey
Chapter 8. Svetlana by the Shore: Stones, Dys/Appearances and Un/Common Grounds in a City of Transience
Martin Demant Frederiksen
Tide 5. The Refugees
Stephanos Papadopoulos
Conclusion: Black Sea Matters: Transience and Phanta-sea
Tamta Khalvashi and Martin Demant Frederiksen
Index