Books and E-Papers

watered: the topography of opaque currents, a new bilingual publication brings together eight interdisciplinary texts exploring water through hydrofeminist, political-ecological, and decolonial perspectives. Developed through a collective reading and discussion process, the book approaches water as both material substance and political metaphor, addressing themes of embodiment, pollution, infrastructure, and fluid identities whilst reflecting on and with different seas, rivers, or waters in urban pipelines. 

This article discusses the challenges of transitioning to low-carbon energy from an economic point of view, using the Armenian context for illustrations and examples.

Sapo Mgeladze’s “The Real Story of My Life” is a truly important text in many ways. It is elusive in genre, but it intersects between documentary prose and memoir, with elements of a diary, and is unequivocally the “key to the writer’s biography and creativity” (Kupreishvili, 2023). At the same time, the era, the fate of a person and an artist in a repressive state, the multiple layers of gender and power relations. The relationship between the narrative of the text and the historical context in which it was created are read with particular intensity here.

This study examines why and to what extent Georgia has been mimicking the Hungarian model under the leadership of the ruling Georgian Dream party and the broader implications of this phenomenon. It is also concerned with understanding the modalities of influence projection by Budapest and the main drivers behind it.

“Masculinities in the South Caucasus: Forms, Hierarchies, and Challenges” follows an interdisciplinary, multi-format approach, containing academic articles, autobiographical stories, oral histories, and illustrations. In their original contributions, sixteen authors from/based in the South Caucasus discuss masculinities to diverse social phenomena, including, but not limited to, clothing, fatherhood, sports, the military, criminal practices, and sexual identity. 

The purpose of this document is not to analyze and evaluate energy policies and their effectiveness. The document is intended to reach a wide audience and engage them in the discussion of the energy transition.

This research is a journey of four women who grew up on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Our idea is to start the research project with the Caspian Sea and create a community of artists and researchers with whom we could expand into exploring the impact of climate change on other water bodies through stories of food and people.

This study analyzes extractivism in light of multiple forms of extraction operations that take place in Bolnisi.