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The Bivocal Nation

Memory and Identity on the Edge of Empire

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Authors:
  1. Nutsa Batiashvili

    1. Free University of Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia

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  • Offers a distinct approach to understanding how geopolitical issues, like Russian-Georgian relations, are made sense of through culturally embedded practices
  • Fills a gap in the existing literature by exploring the cultural undercurrents of political processes from the anthropological perspective
  • Offers contributions not only to the field political ethnography, but also to the theory of the nation-state in post-imperial contexts as well as to the nexus of memory and politics

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  3. Dialogism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-55
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    2. Things Coded in Our Genetic Memory

      • Nutsa Batiashvili
      Pages 57-82

    3. Horizons, Margins, and Centers of Nation-Making in Nineteenth-Century Georgia

      • Nutsa Batiashvili
      Pages 83-106

  4. Memory Game

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-110
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    2. “It’s a Poor Sort of Memory that Only Works Backwards”

      • Nutsa Batiashvili
      Pages 111-135

    3. Libri Magni or the Books that Will Stop the War

      • Nutsa Batiashvili
      Pages 137-172

    4. Conclusion: Catch 83: Two Faces of the King and the Bivocal Nation

      • Nutsa Batiashvili
      Pages 173-191

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 193-195
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About this book

This book is about a divided nation and polarized nationhood. Its principal purpose is to examine division and polarization as forms of imagining that are configured within culture and framed by history. This is what bivocality signifies—two distinct discursive voices through which nationhood is articulated; voices that are nonetheless grounded in a culturally common symbolic field. The volume offers an ethnographically centered analysis of the ways in which Georgians make use of these voices in critical discourses of nationhood. By illuminating the cultural semantics behind these discourses, Nutsa Batiashvili offers a new constellation of conceptual terms for understanding modern forms of nationalism and nation-building in the marginal or liminal landscapes between the Orient and the Occident.


Reviews

“While history is a widespread topic and popular reference point, it also has a distinctive discursive tradition in Georgia, which Nutsa Batiashvili masterfully dissects in this book. Using an impressive variety of sources, from school textbooks and statements by politicians and academics to fieldwork interviews … she presents a colourful picture of the memory debates of the last decades … . If you want to understand what’s behind them and how Georgia ticks, you must read Nutsa Batiashvili’s book.” (Hubertus Jahn, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. jgo.e-reviews, Vol. 70 (1), 2022)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Free University of Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Nutsa Batiashvili

About the author

Nutsa Batiashvili is Assistant Professor at the Free University of Tbilisi, Georgia. 


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Bivocal Nation

  • Book Subtitle: Memory and Identity on the Edge of Empire

  • Authors: Nutsa Batiashvili

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62286-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62285-9Published: 06 October 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87280-3Published: 12 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62286-6Published: 20 September 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 195

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Ethnography, Cultural Anthropology, Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, Memory Studies

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