Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel
Ethnic mobilization in post-Soviet Georgia: the case of the Yezidi-Kurds
'The aim of this article is to examine the failure of the Yezidi-Kurdish minority to attain a high level of ethnic mobilization in order to protect its political and cultural interests after the fall of the USSR and the creation of an independent Georgia in 1991. This inability has intensified the threat of the complete cultural, religious, and linguistic assimilation of the Yezidi-Kurds into the wider Georgian society, instead of allowing the minority to achieve healthy integration into society and the preservation of its ethnic identity. The author argues that the convergence of three sets of factors best explains the present tenuous position of the minority. First, structural changes affected the ability of minority leaders to gather sufficient human and financial resources necessary for mobilization. Secondly, problems in determining a unified identity as well as conflicts between minority elites prevented the consolidation of the ethnic group and limited its organizational capacity. Lastly, Georgian state policies and larger societal trends have subtly contributed to the dismantling of certain core components of the Yezidi-Kurdish ethnic identity, thereby accelerating the process of assimilation. This article concludes with a discussion of the prospects of the Yezidi-Kurdish community in Georgia, arguing that only efforts to reunite the minority and cooperate with existing minority civil society structures will prevent the effective disappearance of the group in this country.' (author's abstract)
- Weitere Titel
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Ethnische Mobilisierung im postsowjetischen Georgien: der Fall der Yezidi-Kurden
- Umfang
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Seite(n): 19
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Erschienen in
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JEMIE - Journal on ethnopolitics and minority issues in Europe, Vol. 6(2)
- Thema
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Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnosoziologie
Assimilation
Identitätsbildung
politische Faktoren
kulturelle Faktoren
Erfolg-Misserfolg
Kurde
Sprache
postsozialistisches Land
ethnische Gruppe
Konflikt
Georgien
postkommunistische Gesellschaft
Identität
Mobilisierung
Nahost
Minderheit
Entwicklungsland
Religion
UdSSR-Nachfolgestaat
historisch
anwendungsorientiert
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Szakonyi, David
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wo)
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Deutschland
- (wann)
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2007
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-61817
- Rechteinformation
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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21.06.2024, 16:26 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Beteiligte
- Szakonyi, David
Entstanden
- 2007
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