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This book examines the social practice of mistrust through the lens
of social anthropology. In focusing on the citizens of the
Caucasus, a region located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia,
Muhlfried counters the postcolonial discourse that routinely treats
these individuals, known for their mistrust of the state, as
"others." Combining ethnographic observations presenting mistrust
as an observable reality with socio-political issues from a
non-Western region, Muhlfried opens up a non-Eurocentric
perspective on an underexplored social practice and a major
counterpoint to the well-examined social phenomenon of "trust."
This perspective allows for a more profound understanding of
pressing issues such as populist movements and post-truth politics.
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.
The highlands 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.
Scholars have long seen trust as a foundational social good. We
therefore have ample studies on building trust in free markets, on
cultivating trust in the state, and on rebuilding trust through
civil society. The contributors to this volume, instead, take a
step back. They ask: Can mistrust ever be more than the flip side
of trust, more than the sign of an absence or failure? By looking
ethnographically at what a variety of actors actually do when they
express mistrust, this volume offers a richly empirical trove of
the social life of mistrust across a range of settings.
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