This article is a reinterpretation of ‘frozen conflicts’ as assemblages binding together and strategically orienting a variety of components from both human and nonhuman estates at various scales in order to make a move toward ‘unfreezing’ their research. It then demonstrates how this perspective may be employed in the case of the ethnopolitical conflict in Georgia. The resulting analysis points to several important processes that animate the constant pulsation of the conflict field even when arms are calm and contribute to the dynamic and becoming nature of the conflict and its dynamic (re-)assembling. It illuminates how the visibility function of the assemblage operates and endows with meaning the structure of relations in the conflict field. It traces how the bricolage of Georgian social association transformed over time, notably under Saakashvili, and how it has also been a key element of statebuilding practice in the separatist entities. The analysis moreover demonstrates how the actual instantiations of collective violence form but a fraction of that which takes place in the conflict field, from other forms of political and criminal violence to regime change, state (un-)making through processes of contraction or extension of heterogenous, ‘hybrid’ governscapes including some distinctly virtual ones but betraying real political effects. Finally, it expounds how the ethnopolitical conflict assemblage affixes together a variety of agency from human agents to institutions from local to state governments or the international conflict resolution apparatus in addition to the material (nonhuman) actants enrolled in the translation networks populating the conflict field.

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格鲁吉亚的霜冻：作为集合的民族政治冲突

本文将“冻结的冲突”重新解释为将不同尺度的人类和非人类阶层的各种组成部分结合在一起并在战略上定位的组合，以便朝着“解冻”他们的研究迈进。然后，它展示了如何在格鲁吉亚的民族政治冲突的情况下采用这种观点。由此产生的分析指出了几个重要的过程，即使在武器平静的情况下，这些过程也会激发冲突领域的不断脉动，并有助于冲突的动态和演变及其动态（重新）组装。它阐明了组合的可见性功能如何运作并赋予冲突场中关系结构的意义。它追溯了格鲁吉亚社会协会的拼凑如何随着时间的推移而转变，尤其是在萨卡什维利的领导下，以及它如何成为分离主义实体国家建设实践的关键要素。此外，该分析还展示了集体暴力的实际实例是如何形成的，但只是发生在冲突领域的一小部分，从其他形式的政治和犯罪暴力到政权更迭、通过收缩或扩展过程的国家（取消）制定。异质的、“混合”的治理格局，包括一些明显的虚拟治理格局，但背叛了真正的政治影响。最后，它阐述了民族政治冲突组合如何将各种机构联系在一起，从人类代理人到从地方到州政府的机构或国际冲突解决机构，以及在冲突领域的翻译网络中注册的物质（非人类）行为者。