TAMTA KHALVASHI is Professor of Anthropology at Ilia State University in Georgia. She is also the Society for the Humanities Fellow at Cornell University (2022-2023).

“The book is one of a kind, beautifully written and curated, and moreover original in its theoretical and empirical insights.” • Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)

• List of FiguresIntroduction: Transience and the SeaMartin Demant Frederiksen and Tamta KhalvashiPart I: Transience and PoeticsTide 1. Taking the Cure at the Black SeaKatherine VerderyChapter 1. The Black Sea ‘Moments’ and ‘Coexistence on the Move’ in TransitVera SkvirskajaChapter 2. Transient Love in Batumi: Being a Sailor’s WifeElene GavashelishviliChapter 3. Complex Intimacies: Sex Work, Human Trafficking and Romance between Italy and the Black Sea Coast of RomaniaTrine Mygind KorsbyTide 2. Batumi (Prayer to the Sea)Giorgi MaisuradzePart II. Transience and PoliticsTide 3. The Black Sea from Crimea: Transience and DyschronicityGreta Lynn UehlingChapter 4. Making Revolutionary Consciousness Transient: Altering Political Identities in Turkey’s Black Sea TownsChristopher HoustonChapter 5. Transient In-betweenness: Conflicting Present and Futures in the De Facto Republic of AbkhaziaMikel J.H. VenhovensPart III. Transience and AestheticsTide 4. Boat with a Single Square SailAnna DziapshipaChapter 6. Makeshift Boats: Transience, Turbulence and the Sea of MourningTamta KhalvashiChapter 7. Fishers, Sea Snails and Dolphins: The Changing Context of Transient Inter-Species Relations in the Black SeaCaroline HumphreyChapter 8. Svetlana by the Shore: Stones, Dys/Appearances and Un/Common Grounds in a City of TransienceMartin Demant FrederiksenTide 5. The RefugeesStephanos PapadopoulosConclusion: Black Sea Matters: Transience and Phanta-seaTamta Khalvashi and Martin Demant FrederiksenIndex