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- Berglund, Christofer, PhD, Docent, 1985-
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Accepting Alien Rule? State-Building Nationalism in Georgia's Azeri Borderland
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Ingår i: Post-Soviet Conflict Potentials. - Abingdon : Routledge. - 9781003304920 ; , s. 113-135
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How did ethnic Azeris in the Marneuli, Bolnisi and Dmanisi districts, located inside Georgia but bordering Azerbaijan, react to the reorganisation of political space along national lines after the Soviet Union’s dissolution? ‘Beached’ in foreign states bent on nationalising their domains, minorities throughout Eurasia sometimes rejected and sometimes accepted their alien rulers. This essay examines reactions to this predicament among Georgia’s Azeris. Drawing on elite interviews and data from a matched-guise experiment, it concludes that locals have come to accept their host state after its state-building nationalism took an inclusive turn and the distinction between aliens and natives faded.
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- Berglund, Christofer, PhD, Docent, 1985-, et al.
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Fighting for the (Step)motherland? Predictors of Defense Willingness in Estonia’s Post-Soviet Generation
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Ingår i: Journal of Political & Military Sociology. - : University of Florida. - 0047-2697 .- 2642-2190. ; 49:2, s. 146-169
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- What makes individuals willing to defend their (adopted) homeland as their own? This is an essential question for all diverse societies. We turn to the case of Estonia, which inherited a sizable Russian-speaking population after the fall of the Soviet Union. Using recent polling data, we test demographic and attitudinal predictors of defense willingness among the first generation of males that have been raised in the republic since the restoration of independence. The results enable us to unpack differences between Estonian-speakers and Russian-speakers, as well as disagreements among the latter, which shed light on the state of social cohesion in Estonia’s national fabric.
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- Berglund, Christofer, PhD, Docent, 1985-, et al.
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Sons of the Soil or Servants of the Empire? : Profiling the Guardians of Separatism in Abkhazia and South Ossetia
- 2024
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Ingår i: Problems of Post-Communism. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1075-8216 .- 1557-783X. ; 71:1, s. 37-48
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Who are the guardians of separatism in Abkhazia and South Ossetia? These de facto states can be seen as self-determination movements or as outgrowths of Russian imperialism. We arbitrate between these competing scripts using a dataset that profiles officials in charge of high politics decision-making inside Georgia’s separatist entities from 1992 through 2020 (N=608). We find that most are sons of the soil, though Abkhazia’s guardians are more multicultural than South Ossetia’s. Russian emissaries seized influential posts inside the self-declared republics after 2003 and, since then, sit in on Security Council meetings, thus rendering them incapable of autonomous decision-making.
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- Berglund, Christofer, PhD, et al.
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Sticking Together? : Georgia’s “Beached” Armenians Between Mobilization and Acculturation
- 2021
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Ingår i: Nationalism & Ethnic Politics. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1353-7113 .- 1557-2986. ; 27:2, s. 109-127
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As the USSR fell apart and independent countries took its place, minorities across Eurasia found themselves stranded in nationalizing states. This article focuses on one of these “beached diasporas”: Georgia’s Armenians. Through a mixed-methods approach, consisting of interviews with activists and a sociolinguistic experiment administered to adolescents (N = 529), we uncover differences among Armenians in their reactions to Georgia’s nationalization policies. Armenians from the borderland of Javakheti mobilized in defence of the in-group but their co-ethnics from the capital of Tbilisi opted for acculturation. These intragroup differences demonstrate that members of the same ethnic group can react to the same nationalization policies along disparate lines, thus adding nuance to the literature on beached diasporas in the post-Soviet space.
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Language and Society in the Caucasus : Understanding the Past, Navigating the Present
- 2021
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book brings together a strong and international team of linguists, historians, and social and political scientists renowned for their expertise on North and South Caucasus. Their contributions paint a compelling picture of the region’s contested past and highlight some of the enduring challenges still confronting it. Taken together, the ten chapters of the book enhance our understanding of the region’s ancient languages, shed light on historical events of crucial significance, and uncover mechanisms behind political conflict and cooperation in the tinderbox that is the Caucasus.
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