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This edited volume explores the everyday struggles and challenges
of women living in the South Caucasus. The primary aim of the
collection is to shift the pre-occupation with geopolitical
analysis in the region and to share new empirical research on women
and social change. The contributors discuss a broad range of
topics, each relating to women's everyday challenges during periods
(past and present) of turbulent transformation and conflict, thus
helping make sense of these transformations as well as adding new
empirical insights to larger questions on life in the South
Caucasus. Part I begins the discussion of women and social change
in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan by examining the contradictions
between traditional gender roles and emancipation and how they
continue to dictate women's lives. Part II focuses on women's
experiences of war and conflict in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and
Nagorny Karabakh, as well as displacement from Abkhazia and
Azerbaijan. Part III examines the challenges faced by sexual
minorities in Georgia and feminist activism in Azerbaijan. Women's
Everyday Lives in War and Peace in the South Caucasus will be of
interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines,
including sociology, politics, gender studies and history.
Following the demise of the USSR in 1991, and the ensuing collapse
of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, widespread population
movements took place across Central and Eastern Europe. Whole
nations disappeared and (re)-emerged and diasporic transnational
ties and belonging have experienced a revival. This book explores
some of the many different facets of diasporic life and migration
across Central and Eastern Europe by specifically employing the
concept of cosmopolitanism. It examines aspects of migrants'
everyday lives and identities, considers some of the difficulties
faced by migrant minorities in being accepted and integrated in the
host societies, but also examines questions of citizenship and
diasporic politics.
Following the demise of the USSR in 1991, and the ensuing collapse
of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, widespread population
movements took place across Central and Eastern Europe. Whole
nations disappeared and (re)-emerged and diasporic transnational
ties and belonging have experienced a revival. This book explores
some of the many different facets of diasporic life and migration
across Central and Eastern Europe by specifically employing the
concept of cosmopolitanism. It examines aspects of migrants'
everyday lives and identities, considers some of the difficulties
faced by migrant minorities in being accepted and integrated in the
host societies, but also examines questions of citizenship and
diasporic politics.
How are youth cultural identities rooted in gender, ethnicity and
place? What resources do young people from ethnic minorities use in
creating their cultural identities? Drawing upon interdisciplinary
research, Ulrike Ziemer's case study demonstrates the different
ways in which young people from ethnic minorities respond to the
social, political, and cultural transformations of post-Soviet
Russia and provides a detailed analysis of how local vs. global
relations are experienced outside the West. Relying on extensive
ethnographic fieldwork, Ziemer explores the complex processes of
identity formation and cultural experiences among young Armenians
in Krasnodar krai and young Adyghs in the Republic of Adyghea. Both
ethnic groups, Armenians and Adyghs, have a minority status in
Russia, yet Adyghs are indigenous to the region while Armenians
constitute a diaspora people. Ulrike Ziemer is the first to examine
specifically Armenian and Adygh youth identities in the context of
everyday life experiences in post-Soviet Russia.
This edited volume explores the everyday struggles and challenges
of women living in the South Caucasus. The primary aim of the
collection is to shift the pre-occupation with geopolitical
analysis in the region and to share new empirical research on women
and social change. The contributors discuss a broad range of
topics, each relating to women's everyday challenges during periods
(past and present) of turbulent transformation and conflict, thus
helping make sense of these transformations as well as adding new
empirical insights to larger questions on life in the South
Caucasus. Part I begins the discussion of women and social change
in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan by examining the contradictions
between traditional gender roles and emancipation and how they
continue to dictate women's lives. Part II focuses on women's
experiences of war and conflict in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and
Nagorny Karabakh, as well as displacement from Abkhazia and
Azerbaijan. Part III examines the challenges faced by sexual
minorities in Georgia and feminist activism in Azerbaijan. Women's
Everyday Lives in War and Peace in the South Caucasus will be of
interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines,
including sociology, politics, gender studies and history.
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