I am a multidisciplinary researcher with a background in conflict studies and ethnographic research. My research interests are centred around conflict dynamics regarding de-facto states in the extended sense. Broadly speaking, I am interested in how the uncertain geo-political status of de-facto states translate into the tangible everyday environment of such entities and their populations, focusing on the effects and af-fects of violent and structural conflict on people, their environment, their socio-political relationships and how it creates different pathways over longer periods of time. Lately I have been focusing on our under-standing of the concept of crisis and the tangibility of the chronicity of protracted crises. How does such a crisis look like, how does it differ and what everyday examples showcase the chronicity? My main geo-graphic focus is the post-Soviet sphere, with a specific focus on the, de-facto Republic of Abkhazia, the Re-public of Georgia and Ukraine.
More information: https://www.au.dk/en/mjh.venhovens@cas.au.dk/
