Abstract

This article aims to understand how local communities affected by protracted conflicts could maintain a capacity for agonistic interactions in their everyday encounters on the margins of the hegemonic control of conflict-inducing narratives. The article analyses the Sadakhlo bazaar on the border between Georgia and Armenia as a possible example of such interactions. In the 1990s and early 2000s, it was the setting for daily encounters of Armenians and Azerbaijanis, whose ethnonational identity narratives have been polarised and heavily securitised due to the Nagorno–Karabakh conflict. The authors suggest that the bazaar in this case appeared as a concrete space of embodied practices of thin recognition of the otherwise antagonised other where the antagonism was not contested but suspended. The article conceptualises the bazaar as a local site of situated agonistic peace by undertaking a critical assessment of theoretical calls concerning the ‘ontological security dilemma’ and ‘transformative power’ of mundane experiences.

摘要

本文旨在了解受长期冲突影响的当地社区如何在冲突引发叙事的霸权控制边缘，在日常遭遇中保持激烈互动的能力。文章分析了格鲁吉亚和亚美尼亚边境上的萨达赫洛集市，作为这种互动的一个可能例子。在 1990 年代和 2000 年代初期，这里是亚美尼亚人和阿塞拜疆人日常会面的场所，由于纳戈尔诺-卡拉巴赫冲突，他们的民族身份叙事已经两极分化并高度安全化。作者认为，在这种情况下，集市似乎是一个具体的空间，其中包含对其他被敌对的他者的薄弱承认的具体实践，其中对抗没有被质疑而是被暂停。