Identity Narratives of Megrelians in Georgia Since the Dissolution of the USSR

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://brill.com/view/journals/spsr/aop/article-10.30965-18763324-bja10118/article-10.30965-18763324-bja10118.xml" target="_blank" >https://brill.com/view/journals/spsr/aop/article-10.30965-18763324-bja10118/article-10.30965-18763324-bja10118.xml</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/18763324-bja10118" target="_blank" >10.30965/18763324-bja10118</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Identity Narratives of Megrelians in Georgia Since the Dissolution of the USSR

Original language description

The aim of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of how Megrelians perceive their identity and the way in which this identity relates to the wider Georgian identity. Megrelians, a sub-ethnic Georgian group, primarily inhabit the West Georgian region of Samegrelo and the Gali region in Abkhazia. Based on field research conducted in October 2022, the study reveals that Megrelians identify as a community connected through language, history, traditions, and regional ties. Their distinction from Georgians is understood regionally rather than ethnically, making the two identities complementary and overlapping, rather than mutually exclusive. Efforts to separate Megrelians from Georgians are widely seen by informants as part of a historical Russian divide and rule strategy. This perception has been heightened by the conflicts of the 1990s and the ongoing war in Ukraine, reinforcing a strong sense of belonging to the broader Georgian identity.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50700 - Social and economic geography

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA22-13347S" target="_blank" >GA22-13347S: Where have all the natsmen gone? Ethnic Minorities in the Post-Soviet Area</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review

ISSN

1075-1262

e-ISSN

1876-3324

Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

303-327

UT code for WoS article

001616738600003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105005402426