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Enlightenment, Modernity and Science: Geographies of Scientific Culture and Improvement in Georgian England
No full textScientific culture was one of the defining characteristics of the English Enlightenment. The latest discoveries were debated in homes, institutions and towns around the country. But how did the dissemination of scientific knowledge vary with geographical location? What were the differing influences in town and country and from region to region? Enlightenment, Modernity and Science provides the first full length study of the geographies of Georgian scientific culture in England. The author takes the reader on a tour of the principal arenas in which scientific ideas were disseminated, including home, town and countryside, to show how cultures of science and knowledge varied across the Georgian landscape. Taking in key figures such as Erasmus Darwin, Abraham Bennett, and Joseph Priestley along the way, it is a work that sheds important light on the complex geographies of Georgian English scientific culture
Life in the Georgian parsonage: Morals, Material Goods and the English Clergy
No full textAn innovative approach in the field of material culture and consumption studies, Life in the Georgian Parsonage looks at the houses, consumption and lifestyle of Church of England clergy in the long 18th century, linking moral debates and popular representations of the clergy to the material culture of their houses and their motivations as consumers.
By focusing on ethical and moral dimensions of consumer practices, it challenges established readings of consumption in the long 18th century as an essentially secular process in which goods were markers of wealth, status and taste, by bringing the clergyman into the frame – their lives, their habits and their homes.
Cross-disciplinary in its approach, combining material culture and religious and social history and sitting at the intersection of these fields, Life in the Georgian Parsonage fills a significant gap, enhancing in important ways our knowledge of this group as a crucial but understudied set of 18th-century consumers, while also contributing to understanding the parish clergy of England in the context of 18th-century society and culture. Bringing together a wide range of source material – from probate inventories to personal account books, satirical prints to sermons, diaries to designs for parsonages – the author reconstructs the material lives and household arrangements of the Georgian clergy in glorious detail. Examining the parish clergy over this period of profound social and religious change through the lens of consumption, and consumption through the lives of these clergymen, has a transformative impact both on these areas of enquiry and on our understanding of English society in the 18th century
GEORGIAN IDENTITY’S SACRAL ASPECT
No full texthttps://geohistory.humanities.tsu.ge/ge/procedings/83-shromebi/138-shromebi-1.htmlThe paper deals with widely accepted assertion concerning the
sacral sources of collective cultural identities and divine foundation of
the communities based on this type of identities. The goal of the present
contribution is to document this theoretical finding through the Georgian
case study.
While doing so, the author concerns the current situation, then she
considers the epoch of Georgian modern nation shaping (19th c); after
this there are facts of medieval and ancient periods displayed and
analyzed.
The results of the investigation makes it evident that during many
centuries Georgian cultural elite had managed to create and cultivate
ideology of ethnic electivity and special national mission. Just messianic
ideas and belief in Georgians’ “specialness” had played decisive role in
Georgian identity survival.
The conclusion above represents essential novelty in study of
Georgian nation’s history as the facts reflecting subjective factors were
neglected completely in Georgian historiography of Soviet and also post-
Soviet era. The author of the present contribution considers this practice
misleading and attempts to reason necessity of study of Georgian
identity’s sacral dimension
Some Aspects of Hybrid Post-Pandemic Georgian Theater
No full textპანდემიის პერიოდში თეატრი, მათ შორის ქართულიც, ფაქტობრივად, მთლიანად გადასახლდა ციფრულ სამყაროში. პანდემიის რეგულაციების სიმძიმიდან გამომდინარე, თეატრი ციფრული სამყაროს ნაწილი გახდა. „მაუწყებლობდა“ ეგრეთ წოდებული Live stream-ის რეჟიმში, მაყურებელთან კავშირი დამყარებული იყო მხოლოდ ვირტუალურად, მაყურებლის ემოცია გამოიხატებოდა სოციალურ ქსელებში ვერბალურად და ეგრეთ წოდებული Emoji-ებით. სამაგიეროდ, თეატრმა დაკარგა მთავარი - ცოცხალი კომუნიკაცია მაყურებელთან, რამაც მის თვითმყოფადობას ერთგვარი საფრთხეც შეუქმნა. პანდემიის რეგულაციების შესუსტებასა და დასრულებასთან ერთად, თეატრი ეტაპობრივად იბრუნებს თავის პირვანდელ და თვითმყოფად სახეს ცოცხალ კომუნიკაციას, რომელიც უარს არ/ვეღარ ამბობს ციფრულ ტექნოლოგიებზეGeorgian theater is not separated from world theater processes. Contemporary Georgian theater tries to introduce new technologies, although carefully, moderately, considering the audience’s interests. On one hand, the influence of tradition prevails, and on the other, the desire to adopt new technologies has the upper hand. Sometimes the introduction of digital technologies in the latest Georgian theater is due to the reflex of discovering a new world, which may even be unknown to the author of the play
Aspects of Georgian tourism development in the context of sustainable development of the world economy
No full text1. http://www.economy.ge/ Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia; January 27, 2021;
2. https://mepa.gov.ge/ Ministry of Environment Protection and Agriculture of Georgia, 20.01.2021;
3. http://www.economy.ge/ Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia. "Georgian Socio-Economic Development Strategy Georgia 2020", Tbilisi, 2014;
4. https://matsne.gov.ge/ Constitution of Georgia, Article 29, Right to Environmental Protection, January 20, 2021;
5. https://idfi.ge/ge IDFI of the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information. January 20, 2021;
6. https://www.ncdc.ge/ Review and assessment of the current state of environmental health in Georgia, Tbilisi, 2011;
7. Lia Todua, Shota Murghulia "Sustainable Development and Reforms of Georgia", Georgian Center for Strategic Research and Development, Tbilisi, 2011.Tourism is one of the growing and important sectors of the economy, the development of tourism increases the economic index of the country, creates new jobs, helps to raise the cultural level of the country's population and develop communication systems. Georgia certainly stands out in this respect, it has a very diverse natural and cultural resources and strives for the sustainable development of tourism that meets the demands of the present so as not to jeopardize the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
The paper argues the relevance of this topic, discusses the trends of sustainable development in the world, and then analyzes and assesses the compliance of current processes in the tourism sector of our country with the policies and principles of sustainable development. The article also discusses the legislation of Georgia, which regulates the implementation of the strategy of sustainable tourism development. The positive and negative factors that ensure the sustainable development of this field are identified.
In the concluding part of the paper, the author presents his views on this topic and has some recommendations to ensure the sustainable development of the field
Georgian-Ossetian ethno-historical review
No full textReviews presented in the book had been published in Georgian, at different periods. The author has dedicated monograph to the issues of Ossetian migrations, principal conclusions of which had been included in the first review of the given book. The history of Georgian-Ossetian relations stretches over the centuries. The Georgians gave the opportunity to the Ossetians, trapped in the North Caucasus mountains, to settle on their territory
Prince Teimouraz and his Essays on Georgian Sphragistics and Numismatic History (at the Dawn of national Georgian Numismatic Scholarship)
No full textPrince Barataev (Baratashvili), author of the “Numismatic facts of the Georgian kingdom" (1844), has been considered to be a founder of Georgian
numismatics [numismatic research]. However, despite the indubitable significance of the aforesaid treatise, prince Barataev was not the first scholar to
develop an interest into Georgian numismatic past. He was certainly preceded by M. Brosset. Moreover, there was yet another scientist, of Georgian origin, who
dealt (albeit in a fragmentary way) numismatic aspects of Georgian
history. Our article is focused on the personality and numismatic scholarly
heritage of prince Teimuraz Bagrationi, son of Giorgi XII, the last king of the
united [east-Georgian kingdom of] Kartl-K'akheti (1744-1S01). We studied
the lengthy letters / essays by prince Teimuraz (dated IS32 and 1834, i.e.prior to the publication of prince Barataev’s book) addressed to M Brosset and covering various aspects of Georgian numismatics and sphragistics
Ilia Chavchavadze and the emergence of Georgian national discourse
No full textThe purpose of this article is to explore the history of the emergence of the discourse of Georgian nationalism and the idea of the Georgian nation. The author offers an alternative view of the reasons for the emergence of Georgian nationalism and identifies the main top-ics of the Georgian national narrative. Ilia Chavchavadze, a poet, a writer, a publicist and a public figure, is considered the spiritual father of the nation in Georgia. He is one of the key figures in the Georgian histor-ical pantheon because he outlined the main ethnic markers of Georgian identity. He and his circle, the group of intellectuals known as Tergdaleulebi, mark the beginning of the history of Georgian nationalism. This makes him an indisputable authority for all those who call themselves Georgian patriots
Ilia Chavchavadze and the emergence of Georgian national discourse
No full textThe purpose of this article is to explore the history of the emergence of the discourse of Georgian nationalism and the idea of the Georgian nation. The author offers an alternative view of the reasons for the emergence of Georgian nationalism and identifies the main top-ics of the Georgian national narrative. Ilia Chavchavadze, a poet, a writer, a publicist and a public figure, is considered the spiritual father of the nation in Georgia. He is one of the key figures in the Georgian histor-ical pantheon because he outlined the main ethnic markers of Georgian identity. He and his circle, the group of intellectuals known as Tergdaleulebi, mark the beginning of the history of Georgian nationalism. This makes him an indisputable authority for all those who call themselves Georgian patriots
Measuring European Foreign Policy Impact. The EU and the Georgia Crisis of 2008. College of Europe EU Diplomacy Paper 9/2010
No full textThis paper assesses the political influence of the European Union (EU) on the Russo-Georgian conflict in August 2008 by systematically categorising all cases of European foreign policy (EFP) action in this context according to their impact. Based on a modified version of Roy Ginsberg’s framework for measuring political impact, the paper explicitly uses an 'outside-in' perspective, i.e. it focuses on how third countries perceive and experience European foreign policy actions. To what extent and how did the EU have a political impact on the conflicting parties during the 2008 war in Georgia? The research finds that in fifty percent of all cases European foreign policy had a considerable or significant impact on both Georgia and Russia, whereas in the other half, the impact was only marginal or even nil. Most importantly, the EU exerted this impact without the use of any kind of coercive means or the threat thereof – let alone military measures. European foreign policy often successfully relied on diplomatic means, persuasion through negotiations, declarations and financial incentives. The results challenge traditional thinking, according to which more foreign policy capabilities – military in particular – are a necessary precondition in order for the EU to become a credible player in world politics
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