Mobilizing in Uncertainty : : Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia / / Anastasia Shesterinina.
How do ordinary people navigate the intense uncertainty of the onset of war? Different individuals mobilize in different ways—some flee, some pick up arms, some support armed actors as civil war begins. Drawing on nearly two hundred in-depth interviews with participants and non-participants in the G...
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Shesterinina, Anastasia, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Mobilizing in Uncertainty : Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia / Anastasia Shesterinina. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource (258 p.) : 5 b&w halftones, 5 b&w line drawings, 5 maps, 6 charts text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Spelling -- Map -- Introduction THE PUZZLE OF MOBILIZATION -- 1 STUDYING CIVIL WAR MOBILIZATION -- 2 A SOCIOHISTORICAL APPROACH TO MOBILIZATION -- 3 COLLECTIVE HISTORICAL MEMORY -- 4 PREWAR CONFLICT IDENTITIES -- 5 FROM UNCERTAINTY TO MOBILIZATION IN FOUR DAYS -- 6 FROM MOBILIZATION TO FIGHTING -- 7 POSTWAR ABKHAZIA -- Conclusion UNCERTAINTY AND MOBILIZATION IN CIVIL WAR -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star How do ordinary people navigate the intense uncertainty of the onset of war? Different individuals mobilize in different ways—some flee, some pick up arms, some support armed actors as civil war begins. Drawing on nearly two hundred in-depth interviews with participants and non-participants in the Georgian-Abkhaz war of 1992–1993, Anastasia Shesterinina explores Abkhaz mobilization decisions during that conflict. Her fresh approach underscores the uncertain nature of the first days of the war. Georgian forces had a preponderance of manpower and arms at that time. As Mobilizing in Uncertainty demonstrates, and in contrast to explanations that assume individuals know the risk involved in mobilization and make decisions to mobilize based on that knowledge, the Abkhaz anticipated risk in different ways in the uncertainty affected by earlier experiences and by social networks at the time of mobilization. What Shesterinina uncovers is that to make sense of the violence, Abkhaz leaders, local authority figures, and others relied on shared understandings of the conflict and their roles in it—collective conflict identities—that they had developed before the war. As appeals traveled across society, people consolidated mobilization decisions with small groups of family and friends and based their actions on whom they understood to be threatened. Their decisions shaped how the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict unfolded and how people continued to mobilize during and after the war. Through this detailed analysis of Abkhaz mobilization from prewar to postwar, Mobilizing in Uncertainty sheds light on broader processes of violence, which have lasting effects on societies marked by intergroup conflict. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Group identity Georgia (Republic) Abkhazia. Ethnic Studies. Military History. Soviet & East European History. HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. bisacsh collective action, Georgian-Abkhaz war of 1992-1993. collective conflict identities. conflict research. intergroup conflict. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110739084 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2021 English 9783110754087 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2021 9783110753851 ZDB-23-DEG print 9781501753763 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501753787 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501753787 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501753787/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Spelling -- Map -- Introduction THE PUZZLE OF MOBILIZATION -- 1 STUDYING CIVIL WAR MOBILIZATION -- 2 A SOCIOHISTORICAL APPROACH TO MOBILIZATION -- 3 COLLECTIVE HISTORICAL MEMORY -- 4 PREWAR CONFLICT IDENTITIES -- 5 FROM UNCERTAINTY TO MOBILIZATION IN FOUR DAYS -- 6 FROM MOBILIZATION TO FIGHTING -- 7 POSTWAR ABKHAZIA -- Conclusion UNCERTAINTY AND MOBILIZATION IN CIVIL WAR -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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