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An undisclosed story of roses: church, state, and nation in contemporary Georgia
- Source :
- Nationalities Papers. 44:694-712
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2016.
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Abstract
- Since the Rose Revolution (2003), Georgia has encountered an unprecedented scale of institutional reforms concomitant with the rise of American and European involvement in the “democratization” process. Various scholars have suggested that Georgian nationalism developed from an ethno-cultural basis to a more civic/liberal orientation after the Rose Revolution. This paper analyzes Georgian nationalism under President Mikheil Saakashvili to demonstrate the significant divergence between political rhetoric on national identity, the selection of symbols, and state policy toward the Georgian Orthodox Church versus state policy toward ethnic minorities. The aim of this article is to examine the at times conflicting conceptions of national identity as reflected in the public policies of Saakashvili's government since the Rose Revolution. It attempts to problematize the typologies of nationalism when applied to the Georgian context and suggests conceptualizing the state-driven nationalism of the post-Rose Revolution government as “hybrid nationalism” as opposed to civic or ethno-cultural.
- Subjects :
- History
Georgia
media_common.quotation_subject
Geography, Planning and Development
cultural studies
Public policy
Context (language use)
Rose Revolution
State (polity)
Political science
nationalism
050602 political science & public administration
Democratization
media_common
Government
05 social sciences
050301 education
language.human_language
0506 political science
Nationalism
Georgian
Political economy
Law
Political Science and International Relations
National identity
language
political science
Orthodox Church
social sciences
0503 education
national identity
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14653923 and 00905992
- Volume :
- 44
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nationalities Papers
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9d3f557c4e38c8022bc4fa0970bed830