What does it mean to live in a world where the path goes towards depletion of care and natural resources, rather than preservation, renewal, and nourishment? Who and what benefits from the care crisis, and what feelings and actions have the ability to resist?
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.
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.
“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 publication includes the Armenian translation of the political essays of Heinrich Boell. It brings to your attention the political essays of Heinrich Boell, written between the 1950s and 1980s.
Publication "Green Library: Contemporary Discussions Around Ecology and Sustainability" in a collection of translated articles on the following issues: values of Green movement, discussion around the Green economy, critics of development from the eco-feminist perspective and notion of social ecology.
This book unites Georgian translations of 6 academic essays from the feminist theory written by prominent feminist authors: A. Rich, C. T. Mohanty, N. Taub and E. Schneider, S. M. Okin, U. Narayan and C. Enloe.
This book is comprised of Armenian translations of seven key pieces that belong to the 1980s feminist theory - however, the articles were selected with an aim to illuminate questions and debates of the feminist thought throughout the history.
Dieser Band mit kritischen Beiträgen vor allem junger georgischer Autorinnen und Autoren zeichnet das Porträt eines faszinierenden Landes voller Geschichte, Kultur und Vitalität.
The capital of Georgia practically presents a new face everyday. Ambitious building projects and large foreign investments are constantly changing the cityscape of Tbilisi. This relentless development is the subject of much debate among the city's residents: what should be preserved and what may be subjected to change? What is available for sale and what is common property? What do we want to remember and what are our sources of inspiration?
Publication "Fight for the Public Space: When Private is Political" presents a collection of articles prepared in the frameworks of the International Gender Workshop, organized in March 2016 in Tbilisi.
The Heinrich Boell Foundation South Caucasus Regional Office presents publication "Green Anthology. Politics and Economy through Green Lens" published in cooperation with Caucasian House.
The publication "The city is ours" is the first attempts of the Heinrich Boell Foundation SC to systemically and critically analyze urban movements emerged in Tbilisi in the recent years (2007-2015) and to define features and strategies of the main groups involved in the social movements in Tbilisi. At the same time, this publication clearly shows the readers and, above all, the urban movement activists the difficulties and problems that followed the protest movements.
This publication presents collection of Urban lectures held by urbanist-architect Lado Vardosanidze in the frameworks of the regional scholarship programme in 2004-2014 (in Georgian).
This publication unites 11 articles written by Armenian, Azerbaijani and Georgian alumni of the HBF SC regional scholarship programme from 2011, 2013 and 2014, which focus on understanding the inherent changes that have occured in the South Caucasus societies recently.