Claudia Eggart

Dr Claudia Eggart

First Book Fellow 2025-26

’Lived Geopolitics. Rescaling Market Infrastructures in Odesa and Bishkek from Soviet Collapse to Backlash Imperialism’

Through extensive, multi-sited ethnography, my work tackles the nexus of macro-scale power politics and the micro-scale of everyday life at two sites that are intricately and intensely entangled with geopolitical dynamics: the 7Km Market in Odesa, and the Dordoi Bazaar in Bishkek.

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Areas of interest

Social Anthropology History of Emotions Geopolitics Border Regimes Markets Ethnography Oral History Discourse Analysis Crisis Infrastructure

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Biography

Dr Claudia Eggart is a social anthropologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester and fellowships at COMPAS (Oxford), the Centre for the History of Emotions (Tampere), New Europe College (Bucharest), and the University of Fribourg.

Her research traces how everyday economies, infrastructure, and emotion intersect in lived experiences of geopolitics—from border and customs regimes to market mobilities and logistical life. Grounded in ethnography, oral history, and discourse analysis, she engages themes such as post-socialist transformation, crisis, and the social life of infrastructure to examine how shifting global orders are materialized and contested in everyday life. During the fellowship she will work on her book titled: Lived Geopolitics: Re-scaling Market Infrastructures from Soviet Collapse to Backlash Imperialism

Biographical details correct as of 20.05.25