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Florian Mühlfried – Being a State and States of Being in Highland Georgia

The highlands region of the republic of Georgia, one of the former Soviet Socialist Republics, has long been legendary for its beauty 환주격격 다운로드. 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 만화 삼국지 pdf. 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 다운로드. This book not only challenges theories in the study of citizenship but also the axioms of integration in Western social sciences in general.

Mühlfried, F 다운로드. (2014). Being a State and States of Being in Highland Georgia. Berghahn Books.

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Martin Frederiksen – Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia

In the midst of societal optimism, how do young men cope with the loss of a vibrant future 환상의 빛 다운로드? Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia provides a vivid exploration of the tension between subjective and societal time and the ways these tensions create experiences of marginality among under- or unemployed young men in the Republic of Georgia 해피이벤트 다운로드.

Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Martin Demant Frederiksen shows how the Georgian state has attempted to make the so-called post-Soviet transition a thing of the past as it creates new ideas about the future daum pot 동영상 다운로드. Yet some young men in the regional capital of Batumi do not feel that they are part of the progression these changes create. Instead, they feel marginalized both by space and time—passed over and without prospects 소공녀 다운로드.

This distinctive case study provides empirical evidence for a deeper understanding of contemporary societal developments and their effects on individual experiences 다운로드.

Frederiksen, M. D. (2013). Young men, time, and boredom in the Republic of Georgia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

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Gavin Slade – Reorganizing Crime, Mafia and Anti-Mafia in Post-Soviet Georgia

Arising from Soviet prison camps in the 1930s, career criminals known as ‘thieves-in-law’ exist in one form or another throughout post-Soviet countries and have evolved into major transnational organised criminal networks since the dissolution of the USSR 다운로드. Intriguingly, this criminal fraternity established a particular stronghold in the Soviet republic of Georgia where, by the 1990s, they had formed a mafia network of criminal associations that attempted to monopolize protection in both legal and illegal sectors of the economy 치즈인더트랩 웹툰 다운로드. This saturation was to such an extent that in 2005, Mikhail Saakashvili, the current president of Georgia, claimed that ‘in the past 15 years… Georgia was not ruled by [former President] Shevardnadze, but by thieves-in-law.’

Following peaceful regime change with 2003’s Rose Revolution, Georgia prioritised reform of the criminal justice system generally, and an attack on the thieves-in-law specifically, using anti-organized crime policies that emulated approaches in Italy and America 다운로드. Criminalization of association with thieves-in-law, radical reforms of the police and prisons, educational change, and controversial, draconian and extra-legal measures, amounted to arguably the most sustained anti-mafia policy implemented in any post-Soviet country – a policy the government believed would pull Georgia out of the Soviet past, declaring it a resounding success 헬로 카봇 다운로드.

Utilising unique access to primary sources of data, including police files, court cases, archives and expert interviews, Reorganizing Crime: Mafia and Anti-Mafia in Post-Soviet Georgia charts both the longevity and the sudden decline of the thieves-in-law, exploring the changes in the resilience levels of members carrying this elite criminal status, and how this resilience has been so effectively compromised since 2005 팝업 동영상 다운로드. Through an innovative and engaging analysis of this little known and often misunderstood cohort of organised crime, this book engages with contemporary debates on understanding the resilience of so-called dark networks, such as organized crime groups and terrorist cells, and tests the theories of how and why success in challenging such organizations can occur 다운로드.

Slade, G. (2014). Reorganizing Crime: Mafia and Anti-mafia in Post-Soviet Georgia. Oxford University Press 토도우 다운로드.

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Tamara Dragadze – Rural Families in Soviet Georgia: A Case Study in Ratcha Province

Tamara Dragadze is the only western-trained anthropologist to have done three years’ field work in any rural area of the Soviet Union 백세인생 노래. The result of her ethnographic study of a village in Ratcha Province in the foothills of the Great Caucasian Range is this unique account of family life in rural Soviet Georgia 12인의 성난 사람들 다운로드. Dragadze provides a detailed ethnography of domestic life, showing how rural families adapt their traditional ways in response to Soviet policy and including an account of women’s roles and of socialization Studio one download. Her book is an important contribution to the study of the relationship between social institutions and the State, and it demonstrates the relevance of social anthropology and detailed ethnographic case studies to political science and Soviet studies in particular 다운로드.

Dragadze, T. (2003). Rural Families in Soviet Georgia: A Case Study in Ratcha Province. Routledge.

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Paul Manning – Semiotics of Drink and Drinking

Drink, as an embodied semiotic and material form, mediates social life 마사무네의 리벤지. This book examines the fundamental nature of drink through a series of modular but connected ethnographic discussions. It looks at the way the materiality of a specific drink (coffee, wine, water, beer) serves as the semiotic medium for a genre of sociability in a specific time and place 유진표 천년지기 다운로드.

As an explicitly comparative semiotic study, the book uses familiar and unfamiliar case studies to show how drinks with similar material properties are semiotically organized into very different drinking practices, including ethnographic examples as diverse as the relation of coffee to talk (in ordering at Starbucks) 다운로드. Further chapters look at the dryness of gin in relation to the modern cocktail party and the embedding of beer brands in the ethnographic imagination of the nation 다운로드. Rather than treat drinks as mere propos in the exclusively human drama of the social, the book promotes them to actors on the stage.

Manning, P 12번째 솔저 다운로드. (2012). Semiotics of Drink and Drinking. Bloomsbury Academic.

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