About the School
Mikel Johannes Hubertus Venhovens
PhD Student
School of Culture and Society - Department of Anthropology
Moesgård Allé 20
8270 Højbjerg
Denmark
Research Interests:
My research interests are primarily centered on issues of (nation-) state building, violence, ethnicity & (post-) conflict, borderization and mobility politics. My main geographic focus at the moment is the semi-recognized Republic of Abkhazia and the Republic of Georgia, where I look at both the materiality of uncertainty and immobility through borderization processes initiated by the de-facto state and the affect it has on the lives of people living in those borderlands.
Research areas
- Countries and Regions > Europe > Caucasus Georgia, Abkhazia
- Man and Cultures > Social Relations > Conflict Violence
- Man and Cultures > Social Relations > Power and politics Governmentality, Biopolitics Borderization
- Man and Cultures > Culture and Society > Nationalism
- Man and Cultures > Culture and Society > Identity
- Man and Cultures > Culture and Society > Ethnicity
- Society and Politics > State, Region and Municipality > The state Nation Building, State Building
- Society and Politics > Research Methods > Qualitative Methods Wellbeing during Fieldwork
- Published
Hardening Porousness: Borderization & Abandonment among the borderland ruins of Abkhazia
Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
An anxious Border: Material Embodiment, Diffusion and Social Abandonment in the Abkhazian Borderlands
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › Research
- Published
Strengthening the De-Facto Border: A 'Concrete' Border: Materializing Contested Statehood
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › Research
University of Texas, Austin
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution
Anxious Borderlands: De Facto-ness, Uncertainty, and Immobility in the de-facto Republic of Abkhazia
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
ASN World Convention 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation af a conference
ESRC Studentship Award from the Scottish Graduate School for Social Sciences
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
The Netherlands-America Foundation (NAF) - Fulbright Scholarship 2018-2019
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
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