ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the corporeal experience of mobility could minimize the distance of subject/object through the ethnographer's body and lifestyle. It compares three moments of ethnographic mobility: the author's journey to mountainous Georgia, travel with the United Nations Observers Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) to the de facto state of Abkhazia and his commute from central Tbilisi to a neighbourhood of the capital where he resided. In these three instances of mobility, author find intersections of colonial histories, post-Cold war geopolitical and economic agendas of transformation of the post-Soviet space and emerging post-socialist lifestyles which could postulate the temporal and spatial complexities entangled in different mobilities and lifestyles. Investigating the borderlines of mobility and immobility seeks both for a historical analysis of structures and an examination of social embodied and engendered practices which are, in turn, experienced as different lifestyles.
