Ethnic Minorities in the South Caucasus

Everyday Ethnopolitics

AvVincenc Kopeček

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This monograph offers the first comprehensive comparative analysis of ethnic minorities across the South Caucasus, examining how their contemporary situations are shaped by nationalism, imperial legacies, informal politics, religion, language, and migration.The book develops the concept of “everyday ethnopolitics” to analyze how ethnicity is enacted, muted, and negotiated in daily struggles over power, representation, and access to resources. Through detailed case studies of Javakheti Armenians, Borchalo Azerbaijanis, and Pankisi Kists, it shows how minority integration proceeds through formal institutions as well as informal arrangements, elite brokerage, and local agency. This provides readers with a region-wide framework and rich empirical material for understanding one of Eurasia’s most complex ethnopolitical landscapes.Ethnic Minorities in the South Caucasus is of interest to scholars and students of nationalism, ethnicity, minority politics, post-Soviet studies, Caucasus studies, political geography, anthropology, and borderland studies. It also serves as a vital resource for policymakers and practitioners working on minority integration and regional stability.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-12-17
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367724320

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Vincenc Kopeček is an Associate Professor of political geography at the Department of Human Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Czechia. He is also the head of the Centre for Political and Cultural Geography established within the Department.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction Part 1: Ethnicity and ethnic minorities 1. Ethnicity, ethnic groups, and ethnic categories 2. Ethnic minority, ethnic community, and everyday ethnopolitics Part 2: Setting up the stage: from ethnies to nations to nation-states 3. From ethnies to modern nations in the South Caucasus 4. Ethnicity in the Soviet Union 5. Ethnicity and ethnic mobilization in the post-Soviet South Caucasus 6. Minority policy and integration of ethnic minorities in nationalizing states of the South Caucasus 7. Ethnic policy and ethnic minorities in de facto states: the case of Abkhazia Part 3: Ethnic minorities in the South Caucasus 8. Our people behind the border: the Ingiloys 9. The “guests” who seceded: Abkhazians and Ossetians in Georgia 10. How many heirs to Caucasian Albania? 11. Nakh peoples in Georgia: Kists and Tsova-Tush 12. Tat speakers: unravelling the myth 13. Talyshis: oppression, assimilation, or successful integration? 14. Meskhetian Turks: longing for home 15. Caucasus Jews: the lost tribe of Israel 16. Caucasus Greeks: progeny of the Roman millet 17. Assyrians in the South Caucasus 18. Kurds and Yezidis in the South Caucasus 19. Caucasus Gypsies or Roma? The complexity of identities 20. Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians: from colonists to refugees 21. Babel in the Caucasus: Germans, Estonians, Poles, and Czechs Part 4: Ethnic communities and everyday ethnopolitics: case studies 22. Javakheti Armenians 23. Borchalo Azerbaijanis 24. Pankisi Kists Conclusion