Collective Action and Political Mobilisation of Georgian IDPs in Response

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Campo DC	Valore
dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_2001
dc.contributor.author	Luciani Laura
dc.title	Collective Action and Political Mobilisation of Georgian IDPs in Response to Changing Housing Policies
dc.type	Capitolo
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	This article studies collective action and political mobilisation of Georgian internally displaced persons (IDPs). It focuses on IDPs’ responses to a controversial housing policy implemented as of 2010 by the Georgian government, which mandated resettlement of IDPs from collective centres to private accommodations. Building on relative deprivation theories, the article pinpoints and analyses four types of responses shown by IDPs in the aftermath of resettlement. Finally, it provides an assessment of the obstacles faced by IDPs’ in their collective and political action, and recommendations for policy developments. This exploratory study is based on qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews conducted in Tbilisi among IDPs from Abkhazia.
dc.relation.ispartof	Eurasiatica
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2018-11-15
dc.dateAccepted	2018-07-12
dc.dateSubmitted	2018-05-21
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-280-2/collective-action-and-political-mobilisation-of-ge/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-279-6/008
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8879
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9433
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-280-2
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-279-6
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Collective action
dc.subject	Collective action
dc.subject	Georgia
dc.subject	Georgia
dc.subject	Housing
dc.subject	Housing
dc.subject	Human rights
dc.subject	Human rights
dc.subject	Internally displaced persons
dc.subject	Internally displaced persons
dc.subject	Political mobilisation
dc.subject	Political mobilisation

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Collective Action and Political Mobilisation of Georgian IDPs in Response to Changing Housing Policies

Laura Luciani Ghent University

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abstract

This article studies collective action and political mobilisation of Georgian internally displaced persons (IDPs). It focuses on IDPs’ responses to a controversial housing policy implemented as of 2010 by the Georgian government, which mandated resettlement of IDPs from collective centres to private accommodations. Building on relative deprivation theories, the article pinpoints and analyses four types of responses shown by IDPs in the aftermath of resettlement. Finally, it provides an assessment of the obstacles faced by IDPs’ in their collective and political action, and recommendations for policy developments. This exploratory study is based on qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews conducted in Tbilisi among IDPs from Abkhazia.

Pubblicato

15 Novembre 2018

Accettato

12 Luglio 2018

Presentato

21 Maggio 2018

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ISBN (PRINT)

978-88-6969-280-2

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-279-6

Keywords: Human rights • Housing • Internally displaced persons • Georgia • Political mobilisation • Collective action

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-279-6/008

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