Representations of Collective Memory in Georgia, Armenia, Abkhazia and Nagorno Karabakh

The book is a unique proposal for an integral description of memory regimes in the South Caucasus region, covering both the independent states of Armenia and Georgia, but also the separatist entities created as a result of the turbulent changes of the early 1990s - Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh. Being a transdisciplinary proposal, encompassing the perspectives of political science, history and social anthropology, the book may be of interest to researchers from different academic disciplines. At the same time, due to its narrative form, it can also be an interesting proposal for students of eastern studies, allowing for a fuller understanding of the dynamics of political change in the post-Soviet space. The comprehensive and integral approach to the issue of analysing and interpreting collective memory through the prism of its representation, presented in the form of an anthropological story based on case studies, may also be of interest to those not associated with institutional Academia.

Autorentext
Bartomiej Krzysztan is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.

Klappentext

This book provides a novel proposal for an integral description of memory regimes in the South Caucasus, covering both the independent states of Armenia and Georgia, but also two separatist entities created during the turbulent transformations of the early 1990s - Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh. Being a transdisciplinary proposal, encompassing perspectives from the political sciences, history, and cultural anthropology, this work may be of interest to researchers from a diverse range of academic disciplines. At the same time, due to its narrative structure, it may also serve as a refreshing offer for students of Eastern studies, facilitating a fuller understanding of the dynamics behind political change in the so-called post-Soviet space. Its comprehensive and integral approach to the analysis and interpretation of collective memory through the prism of its representation, presented in the form of a case study-based anthropological story, may also appeal to readers not associated with institutional academia.

Bartomiej Krzysztan is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.

Inhalt

Introduction. South Caucasus as a Memory Space.- Chapter I. Structure of the Memory Discourse of Armenia, Georgia, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh.- Chapter II. History and the Present. Sovietization Of Memory and the Post-Soviet Memory.- Chapter III. Dimensions of the Memory of Armenia, Georgia, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh.- Chapter IV. Between Institutional Memory and Counter-Memory.