Melting Borders: An Ethnography of the Movement of Peoples, Goods, and Symbols in Border-areas between Greece and the Republic of Macedonia.

该项目调查了希腊和马其顿共和国之间政治和经济边界的多孔性。尽管两国在马其顿的国名问题上存在政治争端，但两国之间进行了大规模的经济往来，边境地区也经历了前所未有的货物和人员流动。我们的研究不是将马其顿共和国和希腊之间的争端视为一个不可克服的问题，作为对国际社会的政治或道德挑战，而是旨在为两国边境地区内外的特定地点和社会现实提供详细的民族志描述。我们的主要研究目标是提供一种新的方法来理解边界，在新自由主义背景下，目前正在经历世界范围的经济衰退，如何影响不同的参与者，承担，失去或改变人们对国家区别，社会差异，历史合法性和物质不平等的感觉。我们的理论目标是提供一种新的方法来理解希腊和马其顿共和国之间的关系，重点是跨越边界的关系，而不是政治争端。这个项目不是将这两个国家之间的边界视为理所当然，并将其视为互动的障碍，而是将重点放在跨越边界的经济、社会、道德和物质方面，从而更深入地了解新自由主义主权的逻辑如何影响马其顿共和国和希腊边境地区严重金融危机时期的民族国家忠诚、人民的归属感和民族情绪。

The project investigates the porous nature of political and economic boundaries between Greece and the Republic of Macedonia. Although the two countries have been engaged in a political dispute over Macedonia's name, there have been massive economic exchanges and the border areas have experienced unprecedented movements of goods and people. Instead of viewing the dispute between the Republic of Macedonia and Greece as an insurmountable problem, as a political or moral challenge to the international community, our research aims to provide a detailed ethnographic account of the specific places and social realities within and beyond the border areas of the two countries. Our primary research objective is to offer a new approach to understanding how borders, grounded in the neoliberal context and currently experiencing the world-wide economic recession, affect different actors, take on, lose or shift people's senses of national distinction, social difference, historical legitimacy and material inequalities. Our theoretical objective is to offer a new approach to understanding the relationship between Greece and the Republic of Macedonia by focusing on relationships across the border rather than on the political dispute. Instead of taking the border between these two countries for granted and treating it as a barrier to interaction, this project will focus on the economic, social, moral and material aspects of border-crossing, and will thus offer a deeper understanding on how the logic of neoliberal sovereignty affects nation-state loyalties and people's senses of belonging and national sentiment in times of severe financial crisis on the border area between the Republic of Macedonia and Greece.