Boundaries and Belonging in the Greek Community of Georgia

Dr. Concha Maria Höfler

doi:10.5771/9783845290508

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Edition: 1/2020
Copyright year: 2020
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8487-4832-7
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-9050-8
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Border Studies. Cultures, Spaces, Orders
Volume: 2
Language: English
Pages: 313
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/InhaltsverzeichnisPages 1 - 18 Download chapter (PDF)
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1. Introducing the Greek community of Georgia: A note on naming
2. Research on Georgia’s Greek community
3. Research questions
4. Outline of the book
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1. Migrating from the Ottoman to the Russian Empire
2. The Soviet Union: Processes of homogenization and particularization
3. 1. Georgian transformations
  2. Emigration to Greece
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1. 1. Imagination: Categories and groupness
  2. Community and belonging
  3. Actors, processes, and context
2. 1. Qualities of boundaries
  2. (Un)making boundaries
3. 1. Categorization
  2. Doing things with categories: Positioning the self and others
  3. Context
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1. The semi-structured interview
2. Who to speak to?
3. Constructing and entering the field
4. From interview data to written analysis
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1. 1. Competence and everyday language use
  2. 1. The “Choice” between language and religion
    2. Speaking about the respective other heritage variety
    3. Speaking about Pontic Greek
    4. Urum as a “Problematic” heritage variety
  3. Preliminary summary
2. 1. Competence in SMG and evaluating its importance
  2. Tracing belonging through competence
  3. “We are born Greeks”: Tracing belonging through ancestry and religion
  4. Competence “Desirable” – uncertain evaluations
  5. Preliminary summary
3. 1. Competence and everyday language use
  2. Speaking about Russian
  3. Comparing Russian and Georgian
  4. Speaking about Georgian
4. Discussion
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1. How to avoid talking about the end of the Soviet Union
2. 1. “Georgia for Georgians”: The dissolution of the “Family of Nations”
  2. “Staying behind”: Coming to terms with emigrating family members
3. Discussion
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1. 1. Being categorized as “Different” in Greece
  2. Relating “Nation” and “Citizenship”
  3. Contesting the category “Greek”
  4. Preliminary summary
2. Ts’alk’a: Struggling to belong
3. Belonging to Georgia and blurring boundaries
4. Irreducible differences? “Religion” and “Ancestry”
Discussion Pages 277 - 288 Download chapter (PDF)
Conclusion Pages 289 - 290 Download chapter (PDF)
Appendix A: Sociolinguistic metadata Pages 291 - 294 Download chapter (PDF)
Bibliography Pages 295 - 313 Download chapter (PDF)