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State and Legal Practice in the Caucasus: Anthropological Perspectives on Law and Politics

State and Legal Practice in the Caucasus: Anthropological Perspectives on Law and Politics

Author: Iwona Kaliszewska; Stephane Voell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781472446909
Published In: February 2015
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Legal pluralism and the experience of the state in the Caucasus are at the centre of this edited volume. The book describes how social action and governance takes place in this region affected by a multitude of legal orders. The authors ask how conceptions of order are enforced, used, followed and staged in social networks and legal practice. Principally, how is state perceived and performed in both the North and South Caucasus?

From elections in Dagestan and Armenia to uses of traditional law in Ingushetia and Georgia, from repression of journalism in Azerbaijan to the narrations of anti-corruption campaigns in Georgia - the text reflects the multifarious uses and performances of law and order. The collection includes approaches from different scholarly traditions and their respective theoretical background and therefore forms a unique product of multinational encounter. The volume will be a valuable resource for legal and political anthropologists, ethnohistorians and researchers and academics working in the areas of post-socialism and post-colonialism.

Preface

Pluralism, tradition and perspectives on the state in the Caucasus: introduction, Stephane Voell and Iwona Kaliszewska

Triple laws and quasi-states in the Caucasus, Sergey Arutiunov

The dialectics of nation-state construction in the North Caucasus in the 1920-1930s, Yuri Karpov

Traditional law and blood feud: Svan legal practice in Soviet times and in contemporary Southern Georgia, Natia Jalabadze and Lavrenti Janiashvili

Blood feud in Ingushetia: differences in adat and sharia, Makka Albogachieva

Municipal elections in Dagestan: political events in a village community, Ekaterina Kapustina

The Tbilisi 'street' as a legal and political phenomenon in Georgia, Evgenia Zakharova

Dimensions of honour in Kvemo Kartli, Georgia: the importance of virginity in the name of honour, Elke Kamm

Moral breakdown among the Georgian Svans: a car accident between traditional and state law, Stephane Voell

Lack and excess of state: how Dagestani experience state practices in their everyday life, Iwona Kaliszewska

Informality in a neopatrimonial state: Azerbaijan, Rail Safiyev

Elections in Armenia: Western models and local traditions, Levon Abrahamian and Gayane Shagoyan

Capitalizing on aid: post-war development and state-building in Georgia, Elizabeth Cullen Dunn and Austin Cowley

A guest of a client: community-based tourism in Armenia between industry and hospitality, Gayane Shagoyan

Corruption as institution and habitus: Georgia under Eduard Shevardnadze as seen from the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice, Barbara Christophe

Marketing reforms: the dimension of narratives in Georgia's fight against corruption, Lili Di Puppo

Index.