'Passport Politics': Passportization and Territoriality in the De Facto States of Georgia

Autor:	Artman, Vincent M., 1981
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Geography Russian history International relations Biopolitics Caucasus Passports Russia (Federation) Abkhazia (Georgia) South Ossetia (Georgia)
Druh dokumentu:	Diplomová práce
Popis:	ix, 161 p. : maps In 2002, the Russian government began distributing tens of thousands of Russian passports in the de facto states of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Some scholarly attention has been devoted to this process, known as passportization, but most of the literature treats passportization as a primarily political process, ignoring its geographic aspects. This thesis shows that passportization in Abkhazia and South Ossetia amounted to a process of "biocolonization," wherein the populations of the de facto states were discursively captured by Russia through individual naturalization. Consequently, passportization served to create "Russian spaces" within the internationally recognized borders of Georgia and, in the process challenged international legal norms rooted in the logic of the modern state system. Committee in charge: Dr. Alexander Murphy, Chair; Dr. Shaul Cohen, Member; Dr. Julie Hessler, Member
Databáze:	Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations
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