Open Access Working Papers
This part of the website will contain papers written as part of the COST IS0803 project's activities, but also papers written by participants in EastBordNet and COST IS0803 that are currently being revised for publication. There are also occasional supplemental working papers presented here: these are papers written by researchers on the project, but which were presented outside the workshops and work groups arranged as part of the COST project.
2010 Working Papers
Work Group 1: Borders
WG1 2010 Working Paper No. 91
Title: Multidimensional Connections and Divides in the Border Regions of South-Tyrol and Istria
Author: Prof Luigi Vittorio Ferraris
Paper No. 91
WG1 2010 Working Paper No. 94
Title: In or Out – Migrant Workers in Israel: The Citizenship Dilemma
Authors: Dr Robin Harper and Prof Hani Zubida
Keywords: Isrealiness identity, Jewishness, intergenerational relations, Jewish state borders, ethnicity and citizenship, incorporation
Disciplines: political science, political sociology
Paper No. 94
2009 Working Papers
Work Group 1: Borders
WG1 2009 Working Paper No. 1
Title: Lines, Traces and Tidemarks: reflections on forms of borderli-ness
Author: Prof Sarah Green
May 2009
Paper No. 1
WG1 2009 Supplemental Paper No. A
Title: Reciting the Future: everyday speculations about what might happen next on two Greek Borders
Author: Prof Sarah Green
October 2009
Supplemental Paper A
WG1 2009 Working Paper No. 2
Title: Multiculturalism and Coexistence: from the Ottoman Empire to Modern Turkey
Author: Ms Deniz Duru
June 2009
Paper No. 3
WG1 2009 Working Paper No. 3
Title: Spaces of Separation and of Integration: Symbolism in the Evolution of Post-War Mostar
Author: Dr Giovanni D’Alessio
Paper No. 3
WG1 2009 Working Paper No. 4
Title: Nicosia after 1960: A River, A Bridge and a Dead Zone
Author: Dr Yiannis Papadakis
Paper No. 4
WG1 2009 Working Paper No. 5
Title: Ontologies of Productive Borders
Author: Prof Tuija Pulkkinen
Keywords: identity, difference, Derrida, Deleuze
Discipline: philosophy, gender studies
Paper No. 5
WG1 2009 Working Paper No. 6
Title: Travelling Concepts in Gender Studies
Author: Ms Sanja Kajini
Keywords: travelling concepts, teaching travelling concepts, borders and boundaries in gender studies and social sciences, identity metaphors, collective identity, feminist crossborder actions
Paper No. 6
WG1 2009 Working Paper No. 7
Title: The Role and Nature of Borders
Author: Dr Lefteris Topaloglou
Keywords: Borders, space, perceptions, identity, border regions
Discipline: Economic and Political Geography
Paper No. 7
2010 Working Papers
Work Group 2: Travel, Exchanges, Translations
WG2 2010 Working Paper No. 78
Title: New Others: Identity Construction and Transnational Belonging Among Latvian Migrants to Guernsey
Author: Ms Aija Lulle
Keywords: Latvia, Guernsey, gated space, migration
Discipline: anthropology, human geography
Paper No. 78
2009 Working Papers
Work Group 2: Travel, Exchanges, Translations
WG2 2009 Working Paper No. 12
Title: Neoliberalism, Nationalism and Border Arrangements in the Southern Balkans
Author: Dr Rozita Dimova
Keywords: Republic of Macedonia, Greece, neoliberalism, border cooperation, name
dispute, capital investments, nationalism, everyday exchange and border crossing
Discipline: social anthropology
Paper No. 12
WG2 2009 Working Paper No. 14
Title: Travelling Towards the Periphery of Tourism
Author: Dr Rita Salvatore
Keywords: local tourism, tourist relations, tourist/native borders, development at peripheries
Paper No. 14
WG2 2009 Working Paper No. 15
Title: Identities and Borders: The Territories of Central Asia
Author: Ms Isabella Damiani
Keywords: Central Asia, geography, borders, identity
Discipline: Geography
Paper No. 15
WG2 2009 Working Paper No. 16
Title: Territorial Borders Between Street Demonstrations and International Space
Author: Dr Madeleine Hurd
Keywords: Danzig, 1918, media, festivals, ethnicity, identity, Poles, Germans
Paper No. 16
WG2 2009 Working Paper No. 17
Title: Expectation and Reality: Crossing Borders of the Czech Republic
Author: Dr Zdenek Uherek
Paper No. 17
2010 Working Papers
Work Group 3: Differences and Equalities
WG3 2010 Working Paper No. 92
Title: “Fair Trade” and the European Union
Author: Prof Vladislav B. Sotirovic
Keywords: European Union, trade, economy, tourism
Disciplines: economy, tourism
Paper No. 92
WG3 2010 Working Paper No. 106
Title: Beyond the Naming Dispute: Border Synergies in the South Balkan
Author: Dr Rozita Dimova
Keywords: border synergies, naming dispute, casino industry, Macedonia, Greece, nation-state
Disciplines: anthropology
Paper No. 106
2009 Working Papers
Work Group 3: Differences and Inequalities
WG3 2009 Working Paper No. 24
Title: Constructing Europeaness in Himarë/Himara, Southern Albania
Author: Dr Nataša Gregoric Bon
Keywords: Europe, regionalism, modernity, social boundaries, southern Albania
Discipline: Social Anthropology
Paper No. 24
WG3 2009 Working Paper No. 25
Title: Central Europe as an Imagined Region
(published in the journal Limes)
Author: Dr Tomas Kacerauskas
Paper No. 25
WG3 2009 Working Paper No. 26
Title: Family, Unemployment, and Borders
Author: Ms Tihana Rubic
Paper No. 26
WG3 2009 Working Paper No. 27
Title: The region of Prespa: Ethnic Legacy Between Three Countries
Author: Ms Meri Stojanova
Keywords: Prespa region, borders, Macedonia, Albania, Greece, Macedonians, name dispute, cross-border cooperation, NGOs, EU funds, tradition culture, cultural tourism
Paper No. 27
WG3 2009 Working Paper No. 28
Title: De-bordering: Homogenization or Differentiation
Author: Dr Martin van der Velde
Keywords: Difference, (Un)familiarity), Cross-border Shopping
Discipline: Geographer
Paper No. 28
WG3 2009 Working Paper No. 29
Title: To plan cross-border cooperation through the developmental Programme Slovenia-Croatia 2007-2013: Some dilemmas
Author: Dr Duška Knežević Hočevar
Paper No. 29
WG3 2009 Working Paper No. 89
Title: Ethnic Minorities and Language Issue: a Latvian Case
Author: Prof Irena Saleniece
Keywords: Latvians, ethnic minorities, Russians, Russification, Sovietisation, oral history, national identity
Disciplines: history
Paper No. 89
2010 Working Papers
Work Group 4 2010: Morality and Legality: Borders and Bridges
WG4 2010 Working Paper No. 93
Title: Belarus as an EU Border: Symbolic Significance and Materiality
Author: Prof Larissa Titarenko
Keywords: border, Eastern partnership, neighbourhood, inequality, morality
Disciplines: sociology, European studies
Paper No. 93
WG4 2010 Working Paper No. 95
Title: Bodies Bridging Borders
Author: Prof Jeanette Edwards
Keywords: reproductive tourism, medical migrations, bodies, borders, Lebanon
Disciplines: anthropology
Paper No. 95
WG4 2010 Working Paper No. 96
Title: The Time of Exception (Lithuanian Case)
Author: Dr Basia Nikiforova
Keywords: border, sovereignty, rule, exception, territorialization, de-territorialization
Discipline: philosophy
Paper No. 96
2009 Working Papers
Work Group 4: Documents, Techniques and Technologies
WG4 2009 Working Paper No. 30
Title: After the Red Passport
Author: Dr Stef Jansen
Keywords: borders, mobility, visa, entrapment, everyday geopolitics, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Discipline: Anthropology
Paper No. 30
WG4 2009 Working Paper No. 31
Title: Bordering Techniques and Procedures in the Lithuanian-Polish-Belarusian Borderland
Author: Dr Basia Nikiforova
Paper No. 31
WG4 2009 Working Paper No. 32
Title: Detention Places for Border Crosses as "Empty Places" and Antinomies of the Current Humanitarianism
Author: Dr Sevasti Trubeta
Keywords: Detention places; border-crossers; humanitarianism; antinomies
Paper No. 32
WG4 2009 Working Paper No. 33
Title: Between Motion and Stillness: Debating and Crossing Borders of Europeaness
Author: Dr Eleni Sideri
Keywords: transnationalism, techniques, naming, rumour, ethnicity, Georgia, Greece
Paper No. 33
WG4 2009 Working Paper No. 34
Title: ‘Bulgarian Passports’ – A Possibility for Greater Mobility of Macedonians and/or Manipulating Strategies of Identity
Author: Dr Ljupco S Risteski
Paper No. 34
WG4 2009 Working Paper No. 76
Title: Pervious Ethnic and Religious Boundaries (A case study of Zlataritsa)
Author: Dr Margarita Karamihova
Keywords: identity, boundaries, minorities, religion, ethnicity, locality
Disciplines: ethnology, historical demography, history
Paper No. 76
WG4 2009 Working Paper No. 86
Title: On the documentary production of the ‘undocumented’ migrant in urban Russia
Author: Dr Madeleine Reeves
Paper No. 86
2010 Working Papers
Workshop 1: Eastern Peripheries
WS1 2010 Working Paper No. 97
Title: Anticipating ‘Hey you there!’ Interpellation on the Road to the Border
Author: Dr Stef Jansen
Keywords: interpellation, confession, anticipation, border check
Discipline: social anthropology
Paper No. 97
2009 Working Papers
Workshop 1: Eastern Peripheries
WS1 2009 Working Paper No. 38
Title: Central Asia, Turkestan, Turan: Many words for a single land
Author: Ms Isabella Damiani
Keywords: Central Asia, geography, borders, cartography
Discipline: Geography
Paper No. 38
2011 Working Papers
Workshop 2: Money
Title: COST Photo-Project, Kosovo, 8 – 13 September 2011
Author: Dr Carolin Leutloff-Grandits
Paper No. 108
2009 Working Papers
Workshop 2: Money
WS2 2009 Working Paper No. 44
Title: Of Gold and Euros: Locating value on the Greek-Turkish border
Author: Prof Sarah Green
Keywords: money; gold; euro; value; Mytilene; Ayvalik; trade; transnational relations
Discipline: Social Anthropology
Paper No. 44
2010 Working Papers
Workshop 3: Gender and Sexuality
WS3 2010 Working Paper No. 100
Title: Walk This Way: Pride, Dignity, and Friction in Postsocialist Hungary
Author: Dr Hadley Z. Renkin
Paper No. 100
WS3 2010 Working Paper No. 101
Title: Desire as a Mode of Border Crossing: The queer strategy of undisambiguation as a challenge to violent border regimes
Author: Dr Antke Engel
Keywords: desire, queer, violence, border crossing
Discipline:
philosophy; queer theory
Paper No. 101
WS3 2010 Working Paper No. 102
Title: Politics of Pride: Ethnosexual Conflict of Nationalisms in post-Soviet Russia
Author: Dr Joni Virkkunen
Keywords: conflict, ethnosexuality, gay, nationalism, Russia
Disciplines: political geography, social sciences
Paper No. 102
WS3 2010 Working Paper No. 103
Title: “Balkan Brothels”: A Filmic Investigation into the Correlation between Human Trafficking and International Peacekeeping Missions
Author: Dr Michaela Schäuble
Keywords: human trafficking, forced prostitution, human rights, international peacekeeping missions, organised crime, UNO, NATO, Balkans, documentary film
Disciplines: anthropology, gender studies
Paper No. 103
WS3 2010 Working Paper No. 104
Title: ‘Perception of non-Normative Gender and Sexual Identities by the People with Normative Sexual and Gender Identities’
Author: Prof. Larissa Titarenko
Keywords: gender and sexual identity, normative sexuality, sexual stereotypes, Belarus
Discipline: sociology
Paper No. 104
WS3 2010 Working Paper No. 105
Title: Intermarriages - Crossing Political and Social Borders
Author: Ms Meri Stojanova
Keywords: intermarriages, Macedonia, Albania
Disciplines: anthropology, ethnology
Paper No. 105
2010 Working Papers
Workshop 4 : Time: Pasts & Futures: The Path Dependence of Borders' Making and Breaking
WS4 2010 Working Paper No. 98
Title: The Importance of Being Central European: Traces of Imperial Border(s) in Croatian Accession to the EU
Author: Ms Orlanda Obad
Keywords: symbolic geography, Europe, EU, Balkans, Croatian accession to the EU
Discipline: Balkan studies
Paper No. 98
WS4 2010 Working Paper No. 99
Title: Con-Frontiering the Family: Past networks and future webs among the Georgian immigrants in Greece
Author: Dr Eleni Sideri
Keywords: transnational migration, gender, Georgian cinema, path dependence theory, Georgia, Greece
Disciplines: social anthropology, migration studies
Paper No. 99
WS4 2010 Working Paper No. 107
Title: Austria as bridge or barrier, or: The ever-lasting persistence of the East-West divide
Author: Dr Alexandra Schwell
Keywords: Austria, Mitteleuropa, security and police cooperation, postsocialist legacies, Schengen
Disciplines: cultural and social anthropology, political science
Paper No. 107
2009 Working Papers
Workshop 4: Time: Past and Promised Lands
WS4 2009 Working Paper No. 58
Title: Great Duchy of Lithuania as a Source of Cultural Territorialization
Author: Dr Tomas Kacerauskas
Paper No. 58