Georgia is a postcolonial country. 117-year rule of Russian Empire was quickly replaced with Soviet totalitarian regime which existed for seventy years. After the collapse of the Soviet Union independent Georgia found itself in a globalized world and faced new and difficult challenges. In a new post-soviet/post-totalitarian society contradictory and multi-faceted process of reinterpretation of old – colonial and Soviet – ideas and discourses has begun. At the same time, discourses of power, which were formed back in the colonial period, continue their existence in modified forms and reinforce asymmetrical power relationships in international and intercultural dimensions. In the context of interdisciplinary postcolonial studies discourses, social practices, and intellectual legacy of the colonial, totalitarian, and postcolonial/post-totalitarian periods will be analyzed. Within this thematic area the following research projects have been conducted:
Georgia at the Crossroads of Europe and Asia: Imagined Geographies and Intercultural Dialogue
Place Politics in Soviet/Socialist and Post-Soviet/Post-Socialist Societies: Georgia and Poland
Working group:
Giorgi Tavadze – East European University
Vladimir Liparteliani – East European University
Tamar Chokoraia – Caucasus University
Irakli Chkhaidze – Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Stefan Kiedroń – University of Wrocław
Ewa Grzęda – University of Wrocław