Overview
- Offers a distinct approach to understanding how geopolitical issues, like Russian-Georgian relations, are made sense of through culturally embedded practices
- Fills a gap in the existing literature by exploring the cultural undercurrents of political processes from the anthropological perspective
- Offers contributions not only to the field political ethnography, but also to the theory of the nation-state in post-imperial contexts as well as to the nexus of memory and politics
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This book is about a divided nation and polarized nationhood. Its principal purpose is to examine division and polarization as forms of imagining that are configured within culture and framed by history. This is what bivocality signifies—two distinct discursive voices through which nationhood is articulated; voices that are nonetheless grounded in a culturally common symbolic field. The volume offers an ethnographically centered analysis of the ways in which Georgians make use of these voices in critical discourses of nationhood. By illuminating the cultural semantics behind these discourses, Nutsa Batiashvili offers a new constellation of conceptual terms for understanding modern forms of nationalism and nation-building in the marginal or liminal landscapes between the Orient and the Occident.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“While history is a widespread topic and popular reference point, it also has a distinctive discursive tradition in Georgia, which Nutsa Batiashvili masterfully dissects in this book. Using an impressive variety of sources, from school textbooks and statements by politicians and academics to fieldwork interviews … she presents a colourful picture of the memory debates of the last decades … . If you want to understand what’s behind them and how Georgia ticks, you must read Nutsa Batiashvili’s book.” (Hubertus Jahn, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. jgo.e-reviews, Vol. 70 (1), 2022)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Nutsa Batiashvili is Assistant Professor at the Free University of Tbilisi, Georgia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Bivocal Nation
Book Subtitle: Memory and Identity on the Edge of Empire
Authors: Nutsa Batiashvili
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62286-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62285-9Published: 06 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87280-3Published: 12 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62286-6Published: 20 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 195
Number of Illustrations: 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ethnography, Cultural Anthropology, Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, Memory Studies