List of Figures Introduction: Transience and the Sea Martin Demant Frederiksen and Tamta Khalvashi Part I: Transience and Poetics Tide 1. Taking the Cure at the Black Sea Katherine Verdery Chapter 1. The Black Sea 'Moments' and 'Coexistence on the Move' in Transit Vera Skvirskaja Chapter 2. Transient Love in Batumi: Being a Sailor's Wife Elene Gavashelishvili Chapter 3. Complex Intimacies: Sex Work, Human Trafficking and Romance between Italy and the Black Sea Coast of Romania Trine Mygind Korsby Tide 2. Batumi (Prayer to the Sea) Giorgi Maisuradze Part II. Transience and Politics Tide 3. The Black Sea from Crimea: Transience and Dyschronicity Greta Lynn Uehling Chapter 4.

Making Revolutionary Consciousness Transient: Altering Political Identities in Turkey's Black Sea Towns Christopher Houston Chapter 5. Transient In-betweenness: Conflicting Present and Futures in the De Facto Republic of Abkhazia Mikel J.H. Venhovens Part III. Transience and Aesthetics Tide 4. Boat with a Single Square Sail Anna Dziapshipa Chapter 6. Makeshift Boats: Transience, Turbulence and the Sea of Mourning Tamta Khalvashi Chapter 7. Fishers, Sea Snails and Dolphins: The Changing Context of Transient Inter-Species Relations in the Black Sea Caroline Humphrey Chapter 8.

Svetlana by the Shore: Stones, Dys/Appearances and Un/Common Grounds in a City of Transience Martin Demant Frederiksen Tide 5. The Refugees Stephanos Papadopoulos Conclusion: Black Sea Matters: Transience and Phanta-sea Tamta Khalvashi and Martin Demant Frederiksen Index.