Being A State And States Of Being In Highland Georgia

Author : Florian Mühlfried
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782382973

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Being a State and States of Being in Highland Georgia by Florian Mühlfried Pdf

The highland region of the republic of Georgia, one of the former Soviet Socialist Republics, has long been legendary for its beauty. It is often assumed that the state has only made partial inroads into this region, and is mostly perceived as alien. Taking a fresh look at the Georgian highlands allows the author to consider perennial questions of citizenship, belonging, and mobility in a context that has otherwise been known only for its folkloric dimensions. Scrutinizing forms of identification with the state at its margins, as well as local encounters with the erratic Soviet and post-Soviet state, the author argues that citizenship is both a sought-after means of entitlement and a way of guarding against the state. This book not only challenges theories in the study of citizenship but also the axioms of integration in Western social sciences in general.

Author : Hubertus Jahn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110663600

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Identities and Representations in Georgia from the 19th Century to the Present by Hubertus Jahn Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume explores various identities and their expressions in Georgia from the early 19th century to the present. It focuses on memory culture, the politics of history, and the relations between imperial and national traditions. It also addresses political, social, cultural, personal, religious, and gender identities. Individual contributions address the imperial scenarios of Russia’s tsars visiting the Caucasus, Georgian political romanticism, specific aspects of the feminist movement and of pedagogical reform projects before 1917. Others discuss the personality cult of Stalin, the role of the museum built for the Soviet dictator in his hometown Gori, and Georgian nationalism in the uprising of 1956. Essays about the Abkhaz independence movement, the political role of national saints, post-Soviet identity crises, atheist sub-cultures, and current perceptions of citizenship take the volume into the contemporary period.

Author : Tone Bringa,Hege Toje
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137583093

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Eurasian Borderlands by Tone Bringa,Hege Toje Pdf

This book examines changing and emerging state and state-like borders in the post-Soviet space in the decades following state collapse. This book argues border-making is not only about states’ physical marking of territory and claims to sovereignty but also about people’s spatial practices over time. In order to illustrate how borders come about and are maintained, this book looks at border communities at internal, open administrative borders and borders in the making, as well as physically demarcated international state borders. This book also pays attention to both the spatial and temporal aspects of borders and the interplay between boundaries and borders over time and thus identifies some of the processes at play as space is territorialized in Eurasia in the aftermath of state collapse.

Author : Kevin Begos
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781616208233

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Tasting the Past by Kevin Begos Pdf

“A myth-busting, history-reclaiming, science-centric, skeptical—and yet loving and respectful—tour of the history, the present, and even the future of wine production.” —Cat Warren, author of What the Dog Knows “This is quite a book and I hope it is read widely throughout the wine world and that it has a huge impact. The fact that current practices have put a halt to evolution for wine grapes, that was news to me. Tasting the Past shocked the hell out of me.” —Kermit Lynch, wine merchant and author of Adventures on the Wine Route Discover the hidden life of wine. After a chance encounter with an obscure Middle Eastern red, journalist Kevin Begos embarks on a ten-year journey to seek the origins of wine. What he unearths is a whole world of forgotten grapes, each with distinctive tastes and aromas, as well as the archaeologists, geneticists, chemists—even a paleobotanist—who are deciphering wine down to molecules of flavor. We meet a young scientist who sets out to decode the DNA of every single wine grape in the world; a researcher who seeks to discover the wines that Caesar and Cleopatra drank; and an academic who has spent decades analyzing wine remains to pinpoint ancient vineyards. Science illuminates wine in ways no critic can, and it has demolished some of the most sacred dogmas of the industry: for example, well-known French grapes aren’t especially noble. We travel with Begos along the original wine routes—starting in the Caucasus Mountains, where wine grapes were first domesticated eight thousand years ago; then down to Israel and across the Mediterranean to Greece, Italy, and France; and finally to America where vintners are just now beginning to make distinctive wines from a new generation of local grapes. Imagine the wine grape version of heirloom vegetables or craft beer, or better yet, taste it: Begos offers readers drinking suggestions that go far beyond the endless bottles of Chardonnay and Merlot found in most stores and restaurants. In this viticultural detective story wine geeks and history lovers alike will discover new tastes and flavors to savor.

Author : Tsypylma Darieva,Florian Mühlfried,Kevin Tuite
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781785337833

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Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces by Tsypylma Darieva,Florian Mühlfried,Kevin Tuite Pdf

Though long-associated with violence, the Caucasus is a region rich with religious conviviality. Based on fresh ethnographies in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Russian Federation, Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces discusses vanishing and emerging sacred places in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious post-Soviet Caucasus. In exploring the effects of de-secularization, growing institutional control over hybrid sacred sites, and attempts to review social boundaries between the religious and the secular, these essays give way to an emergent Caucasus viewed from the ground up: dynamic, continually remaking itself, within shifting and indefinite frontiers.

Author : Franziska Smolnik,Andrea Weiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000021738

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Reconfigurations of Political Space in the Caucasus by Franziska Smolnik,Andrea Weiss Pdf

In order to analyse configurations of power that transcend the territorial trap, the Caucasus is an excellent case in point. Its past and present exhibit an extraordinary richness in power practices of diverse forms that intersect on various scales. This comprehensive volume offers an innovative procedural perspective on the actual workings of power not necessarily tied to the nation-state. Its focus goes well beyond national scales to tackle the manifold impacts of transboundary flows. The authors, from a wide range of academic disciplines, provide original empirical data from this intriguing but largely untapped region, with respect to the critical study of statehood. They also shed light on the diversity of political space and the ongoing process of spatial re-alignment. The chapters in this collection focus on: land governance practice in the North Caucasus; practices of local administration in Georgia; Shia influence from Iran in Azerbaijan; and trajectories of Ottoman influence in Adjara and Abkhazia respectively. They cover the South as well as North Caucasus, examining configurations of power that entangle smaller and larger scales, and providing perspectives on transboundary flows between the area and both Turkey and Iran. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Eurasian Geography and Economics.

Author : Juan Javier Rivera Andía
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789200980

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Non-Humans in Amerindian South America by Juan Javier Rivera Andía Pdf

Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation, and deterioration, this volume offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands. The resulting ethnographies – depicting non-human entities emerging in ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism and music – explore the conditions and effects of unequally ranked life forms, increased extraction of resources, continuous migration to urban centers, and the (usually) forced incorporation of current expressions of modernity into indigenous societies.

Author : James G. Carrier
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789200454

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Economy, Crime and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era by James G. Carrier Pdf

Corporate scandals since the 1990s have made it clear that economic wrong-doing is more common in Western societies than might be expected. This volume examines the relationship between such wrong-doing and the neoliberal orientations, policies, and practices that have been influential since around 1980, considering whether neoliberalism has affected the likelihood that people and firms will act in ways that many people would consider wrong. It furthermore asks whether ideas of economic right and wrong have become so fragmented and localized that collective judgement has become almost impossible.

Author : Adolfo Estalella,Tomás Sánchez Criado
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785338540

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Experimental Collaborations by Adolfo Estalella,Tomás Sánchez Criado Pdf

In the accounts compiled in this book, ethnography occurs through processes of material and social interventions that turn the field into a site for epistemic collaboration. Through creative interventions that unfold what we term as “fieldwork devices”—such as coproduced books, the circulation of repurposed data, co-organized events, authorization protocols, relational frictions, and social rhythms—anthropologists engage with their counterparts in the field in the construction of joint anthropological problematizations. In these situations, the traditional tropes of the fieldwork encounter (i.e. immersion and distance) give way to a narrative of intervention, where the aesthetics of collaboration in the production of knowledge substitutes or intermingles with participant observation. Building on this, the book proposes the concept of “experimental collaborations” to describe and conceptualize this distinctive ethnographic modality.

Author : Thomas M. Wilson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487534097

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Borders, Boundaries, Frontiers by Thomas M. Wilson Pdf

International borders are among the most significant political inventions of modern times. The borders between national states are not just important to the peoples and governments who face each other across the borderline – any international border can become a regional hotspot of global concern. But aside from the significant role borders play in national and international affairs, borders are also places and spaces where people live, work, raise families, and build businesses. Written for students across disciplines, Borders, Boundaries, Frontiers introduces readers to the study of borders and border cultures. Thomas M. Wilson examines both historical foundations and current developments in the field, with an emphasis on anthropological contributions. Ultimately, Borders, Boundaries, Frontiers encourages students to explore the role anthropology plays in the understanding of contemporary borders.

Author : Galina M. Yemelianova,Laurence Broers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351055604

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Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus by Galina M. Yemelianova,Laurence Broers Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus offers an integrated, multidisciplinary overview of the historical, ethno-linguistic, cultural, socio-economic and political complexities of the Caucasus. Covering both the North and South Caucasus, the book gathers together leading Western, Caucasian and Russian scholars of the region from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Following a thorough introduction by the editors, the handbook is divided into six parts which combine thematic and chronological principles: Place, peoples and culture Political history The contemporary Caucasus: politics, economics and societies Conflict and political violence The Caucasus in the wider world Societal and cultural dynamics. This handbook will be an essential reference work for scholars interested in Russian and Eastern-European studies, Eurasian history and politics, and religious and Islamic studies.

Author : Leslie Brubaker,Rebecca Darley,Daniel Reynolds
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000624489

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Global Byzantium by Leslie Brubaker,Rebecca Darley,Daniel Reynolds Pdf

Global Byzantium is, in part, a recasting and expansion of the old ‘Byzantium and its neighbours’ theme with, however, a methodological twist away from the resolutely political and toward the cultural and economic. A second thing that Global Byzantium – as a concept – explicitly endorses is comparative methodology. Global Byzantium needs also to address three further issues: cultural capital, the importance of the local, and the empire’s strategic geographical location. Cultural capital: in past decades it was fashionable to define Byzantium as culturally superior to western Christian Europe, and Byzantine influence was a key concept, especially in art historical circles. This concept has been increasingly criticised, and what we now see emerging is a comparative methodology that relies on the concept of ‘competitive sharing’, not blind copying but rather competitive appropriation. The importance of the local is equally critical. We need to talk more about what the Byzantines saw when they ‘looked out’, and what others saw in Byzantium when they ‘looked in’ and to think about how that impacted on our, very post-modern, concepts of globalism. Finally, we need to think about the empire’s strategic geographical position: between the fourth and the thirteenth centuries, if anyone was travelling internationally, they had to travel across (or along the coasts of) the Byzantine Empire. Byzantium was thus a crucial intermediary, for good or for ill, between Europe, Africa, and Asia – effectively, the glue that held the Christian world together, and it was also a critical transit point between the various Islamic polities and the Christian world.

Author : Susanne Fehlings
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811952050

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Traders, Informal Trade and Markets between the Caucasus and China by Susanne Fehlings Pdf

The book is about the economic practices of traders and businesspeople from the Caucasus and China who work in local bazaars in Tbilisi and Beijing. It describes their activities, their motivations, their socio-cultural backgrounds, their work environments, and their interactions with one another. Contributing to a broader debate on the nature and role of informal economic practices in the post-Soviet periphery and processes of “globalization from below”, the book aims at providing a thick description of the embeddedness of bazaar traders’ economic behaviors and strategies in local and global political, economic, and cultural contexts, markets and supply chains.

Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976..
ISBN : PURD:32754062028505

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The Bicentennial of the United States of America by American Revolution Bicentennial Administration Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015073369087

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Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States by United States. Congress. Senate Pdf