Maia Barkaia

Jawaharlal Nehru University, Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Department Member

Tbilisi State University, Social and Political Sciences, Faculty Member

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I am an interdisciplinary scholar. I hold a B.A. in Oriental Studies, an M.A. in Modern Indian History, and a Ph.D. in Gender Studies. These academic fields shaped my research and teaching interests, which lie in Imperial Entanglements and Modernity in the Caucasus and Asia between the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular interest in the History of Craft guilds and artisanal epistemologies, women’s history, borderlands histories and Georgian-Abkhazian historiography.

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Under the Security Gaze: History, Politics and Religion in the Pankisi Gorge

This study draws on historical perspective and critical theoretical approaches to explore the fol... more This study draws on historical perspective and critical theoretical approaches to explore the following questions: What determined the labeling of the Pankisi Gorge as a “threat” on the global security map? How are the local religious landscape of the Pankisi Gorge and its transformations related to the global security system? The study enquires into local, regional and global political circumstances and interests that were instrumental in the „Pankisi Crisis;“ the current global security politics and its ramifications for Muslims, who are rendered susceptible to racialization, essentialization and discrimination; attempts to neglect the heterogeneity of Salafism and the power implications of such dichotomous classification; the Georgian state politics towards the Pankisi Gorge between the years 1999-2018 and constant alternation between violent and non-violent approaches. Overall, the study aims at demonstrating epistemic injustice and dismantling the dominant frame that forces us to continuously scrutinize Pankisi residents with suspicion. Hence, the study seeks to give voice to Pankisi residents and their experiences, for whom the crumbling of the hegemonic worldview sprung from global and local security politics, carries an existential meaning.

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უსაფრთხოების მზერის ქვეშ: ისტორია, პოლიტიკა და რელიგია პანკისის ხეობაში

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Gender in Georgia: Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus

As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself as a nation-state in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women a... more As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself as a nation-state in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering, adjusting, resisting and transforming the new economic, social and political order. In Gender in Georgia, editors Maia Barkaia and Alisse Waterston bring together an international group of feminist scholars to explore the socio-political and cultural conditions that have shaped gender dynamics in Georgia from the late 19th century to the present. In doing so, they provide the first-ever woman-centered collection of research on Georgia, offering a feminist critique of power in its many manifestations, and an assessment of women’s political agency in Georgia.

Under the Security Gaze: History, Politics and Religion in the Pankisi Gorge

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უსაფრთხოების მზერის ქვეშ: ისტორია, პოლიტიკა და რელიგია პანკისის ხეობაში

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Gender in Georgia: Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus

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