Border porosities: Movements of people, objects, and ideas in the southern Balkans (Rethinking Borders)

185 Pages·2021·9.61 MB·English

by  Rozita Dimova

Border porosities
RETHINKING BORDERS
Series editors: Sarah Green and Hastings Donnan
Rethinking Borders focuses on what gives borders their qualities across time and
space, as well as how such borders are experienced, built, managed, imagined
and changed. This involves detailed and often richly ethnographic studies of all
aspects of borders: finance and money, bureaucracy, trade, law, new technologies,
materiality, infrastructure, gender and sexuality, even the philosophy of what
counts as being ‘borderly,’ as well as the more familiar topics of migration,
nationalism, politics, conflicts and security.
Previously published
Migrating borders and moving times: Temporality and the crossing of borders
in Europe
Edited by Hastings Donnan, Madeleine Hurd and Carolin Leutloff-Grandits
The political materialities of borders: New theoretical directions
Edited by Olga Demetriou and Rozita Dimova
Intimacy and mobility in the era of hardening borders: Gender,
reproduction, regulation
Edited by Haldis Haukanes and Frances Pine
Border images, border narratives: The political aesthetics of boundaries
and crossings
Edited by Johan Schimanski and Jopi Nyman
Medicalising borders: Selection, containment and quarantine since 1800
Edited by Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer and Paul Weindling
Border porosities
Movements of people, objects, and
ideas in the southern Balkans
Rozita Dimova
Manchester University Press
Copyright © Rozita Dimova 2021
The right of Rozita Dimova to be identified as the author of
this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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First published 2021
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Contents
List of figures page viii
Acknowledgements ix
List of abbreviations xi
Preface xii
Introduction: the name dispute and the Prespa Agreement 1
1 Railway porosity across the border: from Ottoman railway
lines to contemporary migrant transportation 19
2 Desirous borders and consumer porosities: beauty,
entertainment, and gambling in the EU periphery 48
3 The sedimentary porosity of tourism, ownership, and child
refugees 79
4 Porosity of environmental activism and transnational mining
companies: struggles against open-pit mines on the border 100
5 Tidal porosity: displaced borders in Skopje and the Colorful
Revolution 124
Conclusion: porous trails at the border 143
References 150
Index 160
Figures
0.1 Vuggy and moldic pores in a rock (Angela Nastevska) 9
1.1a–c Migrants walking or resting on the railway tracks in
RN Macedonia in 2016 (photo: Tomislav Georgiev) 21
1.2 Migrants stuck in the no-man’s-land between Greece
and RN Macedonia block the railway line (photo:
Ognen Teofilovski) 42
2.1a–b The border crossing at Bogorodica–Evzoni (photo:
mia.mk) 51
2.2 Princess hotel-casino (photo: Snezana Stankovic) 54
2.3 Flamingo hotel-casino (photo: Snezana Stankovic) 55
4.1 Protest against the Eldorado Gold company Skouries
mine in Halkidiki, November 2014 (photo: https://
soshalkidiki.wordpress.com) 104
4.2a–b Protests against Kazandol, the copper mine on the Kožuf
mountain (photo: www.facebook.com/SOSValandovo/) 108
5.1 The Colorful Revolution on the streets of Skopje
(photo: sdk.mk) 132
5.2 Protestors preparing to throw paint during the Colorful
Revolution (photo: sdk.mk) 134