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20 years in the South Caucasus

The Heinrich Boell Foundation Tbilisi Office – South Caucasus Region turned 20. Our 20th-anniversary celebration took place at the Goethe Institute in Tbilisi. The event commenced with welcome remarks from Jan-Philipp Albrecht, Co-President, and Walter Kaufmann, Head of the East & Southeast Europe Division at the Heinrich Boell Foundation.

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The Foundation's years of work and important contributions, as shared by our long-term partners and friends from Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

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On the Margins of Citizenship and States: Refugees of Chechnya in Pankisi

The article briefly examines the history and experience of Chechen and Kist refugees who have arrived in Georgia since the late 1990s. It also evaluates state policies towards Kist and Chechen refugees from the 2000s till the present day.

By Mariam Shalvashvili

Hotel Metsamor ‒ A Temporary Home

Metsamor Hotel, built in the early 1970s to house employees of the Armenian nuclear power plant, is now overcrowded with refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh. This photo story by Khachatur Tovmasyan tells the stories of people who were forced to leave their homes and are yet to see a brighter future.

By Khachatur Tovmasyan

Artwork by Sevinj Abaasova, personalities

Azerbaijan: The Use of Violence and Discrimination against Feminist and LGBTQ+ Communities

The feminist movement and the LGBTQ+ community represent marginalized populations in Azerbaijan - they experience social, political, and economic discrimination and exclusion.

From Karabakh to Kramatorsk: The Karabakh Conflict Instigated Multi-Stage Forced Resettlement of Armenians

Cultural anthropologist Eviya Hovhannisyan shares the stories of people who have endured multiple displacements. Based on her fieldwork, she depicts their traumatic journeys and the challenges they encounter in the process of repeated migration, attempting to escape from multiple wars throughout their lives.

By Eviya Hovhannisyan

Hair Loss, Appearance-altering Practices and New Ways of Seeing the Body

The article is based on Ketevan Lapachi’s doctoral research, which explores and analyses practices related to hair loss. To conceptualise these practices, the author provides an overview of literature focusing on the relationship between the body and the discourse, while also discussing new ways of seeing and understanding the human body.

By Ketevan Lapachi

Uneven Development and the Airport: Cabin Crew Labour in Kutaisi

The article discusses the peculiarities of capitalist development in Kutaisi, Georgia’s fourth largest city. It offers the author’s observations on the city’s uneven development, labour migration and tourism.

By Dato Laghidze

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The article analyses the main trends of the memory politics in contemporary Azerbaijan. The author focuses on the specifics of the memorialisation of the events and heroes of the 'First Republic' (1918-1920); the events of January 1990 as the most important site of memory; the personality cult of the previous president Heydar Aliyev; and the memory politics with regard to the Karabakh conflict, including the commemoration of the Second Karabakh War (autumn 2020) unfolding in front of our eyes.

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Politics of Memory In Independent Georgia

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked a global-historical transformation, and as a result, the Soviet system unraveled, and new nation-states emerged.

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Illustration by Sevinc Abassova, Caucasian women and men

Feminist Foreign Policy and the South Caucasus

This dossier looks at the possibility of feminist foreign policy in the context of the South Caucasus, a region coined by armed conflict, destabilizing external interference and military threat, and all but feminist governments

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ცხოვრება მანგანუმის ქალაქში | Living in the city of manganese - Heinrich Boell Foundation South Caucasus

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Living in the city of manganese

The Chiatura manganese reserves have been one of the most strategic natural resources of the country since the Soviet period. The life of the small town of Chiatura and the surrounding villages entirely depends on manganese mining. At the same time, current practices of manganese extraction and processing are linked to drastic environmental and social impacts, abandoned and disappearing villages.

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