Books

Illustration on the book cover of the book "On Care" in blue and orange colors.

On Care

Published: 26 February 2026
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?
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watered: the topography of opaque currents

Published: 19 December 2025
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. 

The Real Story of My Life: Sapo Mgeladze

Published: 25 April 2025
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.
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Masculinities in the South Caucasus

Published: 22 July 2024
“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 Aesthetics of Humanity” by Heinrich Boell

The Aesthetics of Humanity

Published: 29 June 2021
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.   
Queer Feelings

Queer Feelings

Published: 21 January 2021
This publication "Queer Feelings" includes translations of the texts of Queer and feminist theorists.

Green Library: Contemporary Discussions Around Ecology and Sustainability

Published: 15 October 2019
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.

Feminist Theory Anthology: The '80s

Published: 7 February 2019
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.

Tbilisi. Archive in Transition

Published: 31 July 2018
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?

Fight for the Public Space: When Personal is Political

Published: 28 December 2016
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 city is ours! Urban protests and politics in Tbilisi

Published: 24 October 2016
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.

From Private to Public - Transformation of Social Spaces in the South Caucasus

Published: 11 January 2016
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.