Sophie Lambroschini (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin), has written an overview of recent academic and NGO expertise on life along the contact line.
“The photo above depicts an unexploded PG-7L grenade lying by a rural road in the buffer zone separating Ukrainian military from rebel troops in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Local villagers lined up beer, lemonade and vodka bottles a few meters ahead of the grenade as a rather bootless warning to drivers of the impending danger, conveying also the absurdity of this officially named “buffer” and “security” zone, in the borderlands of a war where Russian-backed separatists oppose the Ukrainian government, causing over 10,000 deaths and displacing at least 1.6 million civilians since April 2014.”
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Wed 07 Feb 2018
New at TRAFO: “In the Borderlands of War of Eastern Ukraine. Making Borders by Mapping Needs and Social Practices”
