State and legal practice in the Caucasus
Subtitle: anthropological perspectives on law and politics
By: edited by Stéphane Voell, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany and Iwona Kaliszewska, University of Warsaw, Poland
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781472446909; 9781472446916; 9781472446923
Subjects: Law; Customary law; Ethnological jurisprudence
Description: Legal pluralism and the experience of the state in the Caucasus are at the centre of this edited volume. This is a region affected by a multitude of legal orders and the book describes social action and governance in the light of this, and considers how conceptions of order are enforced, used, followed and staged in social networks and legal practice. Principally, how is the state perceived and how does it perform 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 encounters. 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.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pluralism, tradition and perspectives on the state in the Caucasus : introduction / Stéphane Voell and Iwona Kaliszewska; title: Triple laws and quasi-states in the Caucasus / Sergey Arutiunov; title: The dialectics of nation-state construction in the north Caucasus in the 1920-30s / Yuri Karpov; title: Traditional law and blood feud : svan legal practice in Soviet times and in contemporary southern Georgia / Natia Jalabadze and Lavrenti Janiashvili; title: Blood feud in Ingushetia : differences in adat and sharia / Makka Albogachieva; title: Municipal elections in Dagestan : political events in a village community / Ekaterina Kapustina; title: The Tbilisi "street" as a legal and political phenomenon in Georgia / Evgenia Zakharova; title: Dimensions of honour in Kvemo Kartli, Georgia: the importance of virginity in the name of honour / Elke Kamm; title: Moral breakdown among the Georgian svans : a car accident mediated between traditional and state law / Stéphane Voell; title: Dagestani experiences of the state / Iwona Kaliszewska; title: Informality in a neopatrimonial state : Azerbaijan / Rail Safiyev; title: Elections in Armenia: western models and local traditions / Levon Abrahamian and Gayane Shagoyan; title: Capitalizing on aid: post-war development and state-building in Georgia / Elizabeth Cullen Dunn and Austin Cowley; title: A guest or a client? Community-based tourism in Armenia between industry and hospitality / Gayane Shagoyan; title: Corruption as institution and habitus: Georgia under Eduard Shevardnadze as seen from the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice / Barbara Christophe; title: Marketing reforms : the dimension of narratives in Georgia's fight against corruption / Lili Di Puppo.