Facts

Contact person:
Christofer Berglund
Financer:
  • Formas – Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development
Responsible at MaU:
Christofer Berglund
Collaborators :
  • Ketevan Bolkvadze – Department of Political Science: Lund University
  • Karli Storm – VERA Centre for Russian and Border Studies: University of Eastern Finland
Time frame:
01 January 2021 - 31 December 2025
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About the project

InBorder investigates formal and informal practices of borderland governance across three paradigmatic cases: among Russians in Estonia’s Ida-Viru district, among Armenians in Georgia’s Javakheti district, and among Talysh in Azerbaijan’s Lenkaran district. All three are borderlands where residents have cultural ties to neighbouring states and movements for greater self-determination gained traction at the outset of the 1990s. We investigate both the host state’s efforts to integrate minorities in these peripheral regions and reactions among the latter. Through a combination of within-case and cross-case analysis, the research team aims to extract new knowledge to support the creation of inclusive institutions in divided societies.

Deliverables

‘Diffuse Support’ and Authoritarian Regime Resilience: Azerbaijanism vis-à-vis Azerbaijan’s Talysh Minority. Storm in Caucasus Survey.

Read this article from Caucasus Survey

Discursive-technical landscaping and policing the body (politic) in Azerbaijan: a case study of Talysh activists." Storm in Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography.

Read the article: Discursive-technical landscaping and policing the body (politic) in Azerbaijan

“States as Bastions of Memory: Lessons from the Talysh Case.” Storm in Peripheral Histories, 3 November 2023.

Read the blog post: “States as Bastions of Memory: Lessons from the Talysh Case.”

The “Ultimate Toponym” and National Imaginaries in Georgia and Azerbaijan. Storm (Kap 2) i Encountering Toponymic Geopolitics [red] Sergei Basik. Abingdon: Routledge.