Bloc 1: Understanding the anthropology and colonial history of Caucasus (14.10.2022)

Required readings:

· Madina Tlostonova (2014) How “Caucasians” became “black”, Mir Kulturi.

· Nikolay Zakharov and Ian Law (2017) Racisms in the Southern Caucasus:Multiple Configurations, in Post-Soviet Racisms, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., London pp. 91-128

· Maia (Nukri) Tabidze, Arpi Atabekyan (2019) Banality of Nationalism in the South Caucasus: Pro-Violence Practices of the Society in Georgia and Armenia, Caucasus Edition, Vol. 4 No. 2, pp.68-84

· Jody LaPorte (2015) Hidden in plain sight: political opposition and hegemonic authoritarianism in Azerbaijan, Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 31 No.4, pp.339-366

Further readings:

· Nona Shahnazarian &Ulrike Zieme (2018) Women Confronting Death: War Widows” Experiences in the South Caucasus, Journal of International Women's Studies 19:2, 29–43.

· Peter Kabachnik, Magdalena Grabowska, Joanna Regulska, Beth Mitchneck & Olga V. Mayorova (2013) Traumatic masculinities: the gendered geographies of Georgian IDPs from Abkhazia, Gender, Place & Culture, 20:6, 773-793

· Kvinna till Kvinna (2019) Listen to her, Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation. Available at: https:// kvinnatillkvinna.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Listen-to-Her-%E2%80%93- Gendered-Effects-of-the-Conflict-over-Nagorno-Karabakh-and-Womens-Prioritiesfor-Peace.pdf. Last accessed: May 15, 2020

· Shirinian, Tamar. 2021. ‘The Illiberal East: The Gender and Sexuality of the Imagined Geography of Eurasia in Armenia’. Gender, Place & Culture 28 (7): 955–74. https://doi.org/10.1080 /0966369X.2020.1762545.

· Ramil Zamanov (2020) Gender, ethnicity and peacebuilding in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Univerzita Karlova.

Bloc 2: Colonial history and post-Soviet period of gender in the South Caucasus (4.11.2022)

Short documentary: What it’s like to be different in Georgia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQNnb3s4asE&t=77s&ab_channel=JAMnewsinEnglish)

Required readings:

· Nona Shahnazarian, Gunel Movlud, Edita Badasyan (2016) From the Cinderella of Soviet Modernization to the Post-Soviet Return to “National Traditions”: Women’s Rights in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, Caucasus Edition

· Sona Dilanyan, Burcu Doğan, Anna Iluridze (2017) Gender and Sexuality in the Discourses of the Nation-State in Conflict Contexts: Armenia, Georgia, and Turkey, Caucasus Edition, Vol. 2, pp.121-43 (please do not focus on Turkey)

· Militz, Elisabeth. 2020. ‘Killing the Joy, Feeling the Cruelty: Feminist Geographies of Nationalism in Azerbaijan’. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 38 (7–8): 1256–74. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654420927413.

Further readings:

· Bakar Berekashvili (2018) Nationalism and Hegemony in Post-Communist Georgia, Caucasus Edition, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp.67-79

· Militz, E., Affective Nationalism. Bodies, Materials and Encounters with the Nation in Azerbaijan. Zürich, LIT Verlag, 2019.

· Madina Tlostanova (2011) The South of the Poor North: Caucasus Subjectivity and the Complex of Secondary “Australism”, The Global South , Vol. 5, No. 1, Special Issue: The Global South and World Dis/Order, pp. 66-84

Bloc 3: Understanding modern ‘gender’ and gender activism in the South Caucasus (11.11.2022)

Short documentary: Confronting Feminism in Armenia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zUYWLc168g&ab_channel=ChaiKhana)

Required reading:

· Aslanova, Aygun, Badasyan Edita, and Shahnazarian Nona. 2016. ‘Under the Rainbow Flags: LGBTI Rights in The South Caucasus’. Caucasus Edition–Journal of Conflict Transformation, 1–30.

· Carniel, Jessica. 2015. ‘Skirting the Issue: Finding Queer and Geopolitical Belonging at the Eurovision Song Contest’. Contemporary Southeastern Europe 2 (1).

· Mestvirishvili, Maia, Tinatin Zurabishvili, Tamar Iakobidze, and Natia Mestvirishvili. 2017. ‘Exploring Homophobia in Tbilisi, Georgia’. Journal of Homosexuality 64 (9): 1253–82. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2016.1244445.

· Sonja Schiffers (2021) Pride and Prejudice: Georgia after the Escalation of Violence against Civil Society, Heinrich Böll Foundation South Caucasus.

Further readings:

· Shahnazarian, N., and Ziemer, U., ‘Young Soldiers Tales of War in Nagorno- Karabakh.’ Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 64, Issue 9, 2012, 1667–83.

· Zamanov, R., “Challenges of Gender Studies in Azerbaijan”, in: IN:SIGHTS, International Student Journal of Anthropology, Strasbourg 2022, 184-191.

· Paitjan, Ani, and Naila Dadashzadeh. 2020. ‘Armenia and Azerbaijan: Cross Views on Army and Homosexuality’. Caucasus Edition–Journal of Conflict Transformation. https://caucasusedition.net/armenia-and-azerbaijan-cross-views-on-army-and- homosexuality/.

· Hofmann, Erin Trouth. 2014. ‘Does Gender Ideology Matter in Migration?: Evidence from the Republic of Georgia’. International Journal of Sociology 44 (3): 23–41. https://doi.org /10.2753/IJS0020-7659440302.

· Nona Shahnazarian &Ulrike Zieme (2014) Emotions, Loss and Change: Armenian Women and Post-Socialist Transformations in Nagorny Karabakh, Caucasus Survey 2:1, 27–40

· Joel Rookwood (2022) From sport-for-development to sports mega-events: conflict, authoritarian modernisation and statecraft in Azerbaijan, Sport in Society, 25:4, 847-866, DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2021.2019710

Bloc 4: Visiting non-academic literature (emerging platforms) (22.12.2022 – this class will run on Thursday instead of Friday)

Short documentary: A and 24 Others (due to license issues, we will watch this during the class)

Required readings:

· Mariam Nikuradze (2016) Let Girls Go to School: Early Marriages in Georgia, ChaiKhana. Available at: https://chaikhana.media/en/stories/382/let-girls-go-to-school-early-marriages-in-georgia

· Lazar Mikov (2017) Gay in Tbilisi - In and Out of The Closet , ChaiKhana. Available at: https://chaikhana.media/en/stories/564/gay-in-tbilisi-in-and-out-of-the-closet

· Vusala Hajiyeva (2022) Trans women in the sex industry in Azerbaijan: Is it a free choice or just the illusion of choice?, GlobalVoices. Available at: https://globalvoices.org/2022/06/30/trans-women-in-the-sex-industry-in-azerbaijan-is-it-a-free-choice-or-just-an-illusion-of-choice/

· Khayyam Namazov (2021) Emerging Political Feminism in Azerbaijan: The Most Visible Other, Heinrich Böll Foundation South Caucasus. Available at: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2021/10/25/emerging-political-feminism-azerbaijan-most-visible-other

· Ramil Zamanov (2022) Understanding Intersectionality through LGBTQIA+/Queer Narratives in Azerbaijan, Heinrich Böll Foundation South Caucasus. Available at: https://feminism-boell.org/en/2022/07/18/understanding-intersectionality-through-lgbtqiaqueer-narratives-azerbaijan

· Nelli Shishmanyan (2015) Being A Woman in the Village, ChaiKhana. Available at: https://chaikhana.media/en/stories/54/being-a-woman-in-the-village

· Ani Grigoryan (2017) Let’s (Not) Talk About Sex in Armenia , ChaiKhana. Available at: https://chaikhana.media/en/stories/542/lets-not-talk-about-sex-in-armenia

Further readings:

· Lala Aliyeva (2017) Strength and Struggle of Azerbaijani Women in Iran, ChaiKhana.

· Lidiya Mikhalchenko (2019) Opinion | It’s time for North Caucasian men to stop trying to put women ‘