Documenting Territory

Passportisation, Territory, and Exception in Abkhazia and South Ossetia

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3948294
AutoresVincent M Artman (University of Kansas, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Volume18
Fascículo3
Páginas682-704
Data de publicação2013-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2013.769963
OpenAlexW1999115792
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas31

Despite the crucial role it played in the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia, the phenomenon of passportisation has not received a great deal of scholarly attention. Much of the literature has treated the mass distribution of Russian passports to the residents of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as little more than a strategy to manufacture an excuse to go to war with Georgia. Drawing on recent scholarship on territory and territoriality, as well as with literature addressing Agamben's theories of exceptional spaces, this paper contributes to a more nuanced understanding of passportisation by analysing the territorial effects it produced. It argues that the wholesale conversion of Abkhazians and South Ossetians into Russian citizens did not merely manufacture a casus belli, it also produced exceptional spaces within the territory of the Republic of Georgia, where the norms of international law and the modern state system were effectively suspended

Criminology · Geography · Political science · Sociology · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics