Heinrich Boell Foundation Yerevan Office-South Caucasus Region in cooperation with “Ecological Right” NGO implements a project titled “Raising environmental and economic inconsistencies of the mining strategy of Armenia based on international best practice”․

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.

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.

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.

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.

The article outlines the complexity and the multifaceted nature of the way development projects - and related local practices - unfolded in Upper Svaneti over the past few decades. Additionally, the author provides, based on the example of Svaneti, a theoretical overview for understanding how engagement with market forces affects the state and its sovereignty, as well as local practices.