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SUMMARY:Solid state: materialising 'territorial integrity' in a post-Sovie
 t borderland - Dr Madeleine Reeves\, ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cul
 tural Change' at the University of Manchester
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CONTACT:Dacia Viejo Rose
DESCRIPTION:This presentation seeks to ask what 'territorial integrity' mi
 ght look like as an object of ethnographic enquiry by examining the politi
 cisation of a new – and as yet\, not fully demarcated -\ninternational b
 order between the post-Soviet Central Asian states of Kyrgyzstan and Tajik
 istan.Its empirical point of entry is a phenomenon known in Kyrgyzstani po
 litical discourse as 'creeping\nmigration'\, that is\, the illegal purchas
 e or lease of land and property in Kyrgyzstani border villages by citizens
  of neighbouring border villages in Tajikistan.  Drawing on extended ethno
 graphic\nfieldwork\, the paper explores the dynamics of this phenomenon in
  its historical and political contexts\, examining the legacies of Soviet 
 delimitation and the contemporary political economy of land on both\nsides
  of the border that has rendered swathes of territory 'contested'.  It is 
 also concerned to understand the life that 'creeping migration' has come t
 o acquire in contemporary Kyrgyzstani\npolitical discourse. 
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Seminar Room\, 17 Mill Lane
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