No. 139: Georgia's Civic Sphere in Times of Fundamental Rupture

Author(s): Najmin Kamilsoy, Clara Weller, Tamar Tolordava, Tamar Khoshtaria, Veronika Pfeilschifter
Editor(s): Najmin Kamilsoy (Special Editor), Veronika Pfeilschifter (Special Editor)
Series Editor(s): Lusine Badalyan, Sandra Fernandes, Farid Guliyev, Diana Lezhava, Lili Di Puppo, Jeronim Perović, Abel Polese, Andreas Heinrich, Heiko Pleines
Series: Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD)
Issue: 139
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich; Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), University of Bremen; Caucasus Research Resource Center (CRRC-Georgia); Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES), University of Zurich; German Association for East European Studies (DGO)
Publication Year: 2024

This special issue aims to contextualize the enactment of the law "on transparency of foreign influence,” or the “foreign agents law,” in Georgia with a particular focus on the institutional and discursive dynamics as well as the protest mobilizations that have emerged in response. The contributions in this issue examine four interconnected topics: Georgia’s state-NGO relations amid democratic backsliding; dynamics of protests and practices of interactions related to inclusion and exclusion; governmental discourses and moral defamation of civil society and the LGBTQI community; protest attitudes and behavior between 2023 and 2024.

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