Caroline Humphrey (Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
Maritime movement and sailors' attachments
This paper is about sea-born sociality, in other words the particular sociality brought to the Black Sea region by ships and sailors. It focuses on the particular constellation of the Soviet era. But from the mid-1980s, and with increased tempo in the early 1990s, this entire maritime establishment, bringing with it both the networks and the absence of relations established in Soviet times, crumbled away. It has been replaced – not only by different routes and links, but also by new economic rationales and political pressures foreign to the earlier period.
