Abkhazia
Affect
Batumi
Boats
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Cetaceans
Commonality
De-facto
Dys-Appearance
Ecology
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Fatsa
Fishers
Georgia
human trafficking
Imagination
Inbetweenness
Infrastructures
intimacy
Istanbul
Italy
Long-distance seafaring
Marine species
Materiality
military coup d'etat
passenger car ferry
Phantasy
Post-soviet Georgia
Romania
Sailors' wives
Seabirds
sex work
sex workers
shipped mobilities
socialist activism
Stones
transient sociality
transient togetherness
Turbulence
Turkey
Ukraine
Uncertainty
War
Water
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- ISBN 9781836954170
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2026
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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).
