ROOTS OF BELONGING AS SPACES FOR INTEGRATION. POTENTIALITY OF GEORGIAN IDP SCHOOLS IN INTEGRATION PROCESSES
Abstract
This article supports the idea that anthropology offers practical contributions towards more effective and co-participated development and cooperation processes. The work addresses institutions and those active in the context of integration of the displaced Georgians of Abkhazia. I propose the so-called Abkhazian School, which is usually stigmatized as a metaphor for the failure of integration process, as a space for a successful encounter and meaningful exchange between the community of the displaced (IDPs) and local people, by fuelling the interests and needs of them both. My position sets on the ethnographic terrain I have been researching and working in the last three years; furthermore develops through the presentation of crucial anthropological concepts such as identity, memory, space, belonging and socialization. Specifically, I focus on the connection between identity of IDPs and the land of Abkhazia during their dislocation in Tbilisi.References
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Badurdeen, F.A. 2010. “Ending internal displacement: the long-term IDPs in Sri Lanka”. Oxford: Refugee Study Center of Oxford University
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Breckenridge, C. &Appadurai, A. 1989. “On Moving Targets” in Public Culture 2(1):I-IV
Candeau, J. 2002 (1998), La memoria e l’identità. Napoli: Ipermedium libri. Original Title: Memoireet identité
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Dershem, L., Gurgenidze N. &Holtzman S. 2002, “Poverty and Vulnerability among Internally Displaced Persons in Georgia: An Update of their Current Status and Circumstances”. World Bank Report
Dubar, C. 2000. La socialization. Constuction des identités sociales et professionnelles. Paris: Armand Colin
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Gupta, A .& Ferguson, J. 1997. “Beyond 'Culture': Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference”, in Gupta, A .& Ferguson, J. (eds.). Culture, Power, Place. Explorations in Critical Anthropology. Durham: Duke University Press
Know, P.L. 1995. World Cities and the Organization of Global Space in Johnston, R., Taylor, P. & Watts, M. (eds.) Geographies of Global Change, Blackwell, pp.232-248
Li Causi, 2008. L. Due popoli e una nazione: mikrasiátes e greci nella terra dei centauri. Pisa: edizioni ETS
Loughna, S., Bregvadze, T. &Partskhaladze,N., 2010, Not Displaced, Out-of-Place: Education of IDP Children in Georgia, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Malkki Lisa, 1997, National Geographic: the Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity among Scholars and Refugees, In Gupta A., Ferguson J. (eds.): Culture, Power, Place. Explorations in Critical Anthropology, Duke University Press: Durham
Malkki, L. 1995. Purity and Exile. Violence, Memory and National Cosmology Among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Massey, D. 1993. “Power-geometry and a progressive sense of place”, in Bird, J. Curtis, B. Putnam, T., Robertson G. &Tickner (eds) L. Mapping the Futures: Local Cultures, Global Change. London: Routledge
Massey,D . 1994. “Double Articulation: a Place in the World', in Bammer, A. (ed.). Displacements. Cultural Identities in Question. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Matiashvili,A. 2004. IDP Education Profile in Georgia. Tbilisi: GoG, SDC, UNDP, UNHCR, USAID & World Bank
Said, E. 1978. Orientalism. New York: Pantheon Books
Tuan, Y.F., 1980. “Rootedness versus sense of place”. Landscape, 24(1): 3–8.
Turton, D. 2005. “The Meaning of Place in a World of Movement: Lessons from Long-term Field Research in SoutherEthipioa” in Journal of Refugee Studies, 18(3), pp. 258-280
Weil, S. 1952 (1943). The Need for Roots. Prelude To A Declaration Of Duties Towards Mankind. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Original Title L'enracinement.
Published
2018-01-24
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RUSSO, Elena.
ROOTS OF BELONGING AS SPACES FOR INTEGRATION. POTENTIALITY OF GEORGIAN IDP SCHOOLS IN INTEGRATION PROCESSES.
Eastern Europe Regional Studies, [S.l.], jan. 2018.
ISSN 2587-456X.
Available at: <https://test.psage.tsu.ge/index.php/Easternstudies/article/view/66>. Date accessed: 25 dec. 2024.
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Keywords
Anthropology of Cooperation and Development, Georgian Internal Displacement, Abkhazian Schools Roots,Integration
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