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Ariane Bachelet is a Post-doctoral fellow at IRSEM - Europe and active member of PRODIG (UMR 8586), a joint research unit of CNRS, IRD, University of Paris 8, and Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University based at Condorcet Campus in Aubervilliers. Her geopolitical research focuses on territorial recomposition in contested post-Soviet spaces, particularly Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
She earned her PhD from Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University and the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2023. Her dissertation Spatial Recompositions in the Post-Soviet Caucasus: The Cases of Abkhazia and South Ossetia was supervised by Yann Richard and Vladimir Kolosov, examining fragmentation/integration dynamics in de facto states.
Bachelet's research centers on geopolitical border transformations, analyzing how political, social, and symbolic divisions interact with spatial integration processes. Her work investigates the dialectic between territorial partitioning and integration into Russian geopolitical space, challenging narratives of frozen conflicts through fieldwork in the Caucasus region. She examines discursive constructions of sovereignty and the material realities of border populations.
Her 13 publications (2016-2022) reveal consistent focus on de facto states' territorial dynamics, with evolving emphasis from border security (2016-2018) to socio-spatial integration mechanisms (2019-2022). The corpus demonstrates interdisciplinary methodology combining political geography, international relations, and ethnographic approaches to post-Soviet conflicts.
As an educator, Bachelet has held part-time ATER positions at University of Evry, Pantheon-Sorbonne University, and University Paris 13 since 2016, teaching regional geography, globalization, and research methodology. She contributes to PRODIG's research axes on political geography of resources and territorial power construction within the Anthropocene framework.
