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Research paper thumbnail of Representation of Women and Gender Roles in Georgian and North-American Poetry of the Late 20th Century

Kadmos

The role and representation of women has been one of the central issues in the societal, aestheti... more The role and representation of women has been one of the central issues in the societal, aesthetical, philosophical processes of the 20th and 21st centuries, so much so, that it became a turning point of sorts in the development of Western civilization and in shaping it to its current form. Even today, the topic of women remains a measure of the progress of a country, and is one of the main characteristics of social and cultural development. The voice of women, hardly heard in literature over the centuries, was even more silenced in colonized or foreign-dominated societies. The Soviet cultural policy significantly changed the direction of development of Georgian literature, and hindered modernist-avant-garde tendencies and attempts to express women’s genuine feelings and grievances in literature. The article studies the representation of women and gender roles in Georgian poetry of the Soviet thaw and onwards, as compared to the voice of women in the poetry of a number of prominent ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Russian Media and Russia's Military Intervention in Georgia in 2008

Journal of Social Sciences, 2011

This study examines the role of the Russian media in affecting public opinion in Russia regarding... more This study examines the role of the Russian media in affecting public opinion in Russia regarding the Russian intervention in 2008. The largest armed conflict in Europe since Kosovo in 1999, the August 2008 war was fought between Georgia and Russia over the proclaimed independence of the Georgian separate governments of Abkhazia and South Ossetia which were supported by Russia. Russia intervened militarily and recognized the independence of the two separatist regions, supported by an overwhelming majority of the Russian population. This study analyzes the role of the Russian media in affecting the Russian public opinion regarding its government’s policies in relation to Georgia. The method used for study is discourse analysis, and the theoretical framework underlying the research is Barry Buzan’s (et al., 1998) concept of securitization and Edward Herman’s and Noam Chomsky’s (1988) concept of manufacturing consent which was later elaborated by Anthony DiMaggio (2009). The trends ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Russian Media and Russia's Military Intervention in Georgia in 2008

The Russian Media and Russia s Military Intervention in Georgia in 2008 This study examines the r... more The Russian Media and Russia s Military Intervention in Georgia in 2008 This study examines the role of the Russian media in affecting the public opinion in Russia regarding the Russian intervention in 2008. The largest armed conflict in Europe since Kosovo in 1999, the August 2008 war was fought between Georgia and Russia over the proclaimed independence of the Georgian separate governments of Abkhazia and South Ossetia which were supported by Russia. Russia intervened militarily and recognized the independence of the two separatist regions, supported by an overwhelming majority of the Russian population. In the study eight popular Russian media outlets were reviewed to examine what kind of messages they delivered to their readers during the time period between March till August in 2008. The method used for the study is discourse analysis, and the theoretical framework underlying the research is Barry Buzan s (et al.,1998) concept of securitization and Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky s (1988) concept of manufacturing consent which was later elaborated by Anthony DiMaggio (2009). The results show that the mainstream Russian media presented Georgia as a big threat to the Russian state, requiring to take urgent forceful measures. In this way, the Russian media, willingly or unwillingly, served as a tool for the Russian government to successfully securitize Georgia and justify the intervention of Russia in Georgia in August 2008. The securitization process was aided with manufacturing consent of the Russian public by means of relying mainly on one-sided (anti-Georgian) sources, choice of words and topics, framing of events, as well as seemingly critical rhetoric reproaching the government policies on superficial issues of procedure rather than issues of moral and international law. These trends identified in the mainstream media coverage must account for the positive opinion of the Russian public towards the intervention. The study also revealed the contrasting trends characterizing the mainstream and alternative Russian media coverage, thus once again confirming the crucial role of the media in establishing the different opinions among the public, by building contrasting images of the world.

Research paper thumbnail of Representation of Women and Gender Roles in Georgian and North-American Poetry of the Late 20th Century

Kadmos

The role and representation of women has been one of the central issues in the societal, aestheti... more The role and representation of women has been one of the central issues in the societal, aesthetical, philosophical processes of the 20th and 21st centuries, so much so, that it became a turning point of sorts in the development of Western civilization and in shaping it to its current form. Even today, the topic of women remains a measure of the progress of a country, and is one of the main characteristics of social and cultural development. The voice of women, hardly heard in literature over the centuries, was even more silenced in colonized or foreign-dominated societies. The Soviet cultural policy significantly changed the direction of development of Georgian literature, and hindered modernist-avant-garde tendencies and attempts to express women’s genuine feelings and grievances in literature. The article studies the representation of women and gender roles in Georgian poetry of the Soviet thaw and onwards, as compared to the voice of women in the poetry of a number of prominent ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Russian Media and Russia's Military Intervention in Georgia in 2008

Journal of Social Sciences, 2011

This study examines the role of the Russian media in affecting public opinion in Russia regarding... more This study examines the role of the Russian media in affecting public opinion in Russia regarding the Russian intervention in 2008. The largest armed conflict in Europe since Kosovo in 1999, the August 2008 war was fought between Georgia and Russia over the proclaimed independence of the Georgian separate governments of Abkhazia and South Ossetia which were supported by Russia. Russia intervened militarily and recognized the independence of the two separatist regions, supported by an overwhelming majority of the Russian population. This study analyzes the role of the Russian media in affecting the Russian public opinion regarding its government’s policies in relation to Georgia. The method used for study is discourse analysis, and the theoretical framework underlying the research is Barry Buzan’s (et al., 1998) concept of securitization and Edward Herman’s and Noam Chomsky’s (1988) concept of manufacturing consent which was later elaborated by Anthony DiMaggio (2009). The trends ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Russian Media and Russia's Military Intervention in Georgia in 2008

The Russian Media and Russia s Military Intervention in Georgia in 2008 This study examines the r... more The Russian Media and Russia s Military Intervention in Georgia in 2008 This study examines the role of the Russian media in affecting the public opinion in Russia regarding the Russian intervention in 2008. The largest armed conflict in Europe since Kosovo in 1999, the August 2008 war was fought between Georgia and Russia over the proclaimed independence of the Georgian separate governments of Abkhazia and South Ossetia which were supported by Russia. Russia intervened militarily and recognized the independence of the two separatist regions, supported by an overwhelming majority of the Russian population. In the study eight popular Russian media outlets were reviewed to examine what kind of messages they delivered to their readers during the time period between March till August in 2008. The method used for the study is discourse analysis, and the theoretical framework underlying the research is Barry Buzan s (et al.,1998) concept of securitization and Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky s (1988) concept of manufacturing consent which was later elaborated by Anthony DiMaggio (2009). The results show that the mainstream Russian media presented Georgia as a big threat to the Russian state, requiring to take urgent forceful measures. In this way, the Russian media, willingly or unwillingly, served as a tool for the Russian government to successfully securitize Georgia and justify the intervention of Russia in Georgia in August 2008. The securitization process was aided with manufacturing consent of the Russian public by means of relying mainly on one-sided (anti-Georgian) sources, choice of words and topics, framing of events, as well as seemingly critical rhetoric reproaching the government policies on superficial issues of procedure rather than issues of moral and international law. These trends identified in the mainstream media coverage must account for the positive opinion of the Russian public towards the intervention. The study also revealed the contrasting trends characterizing the mainstream and alternative Russian media coverage, thus once again confirming the crucial role of the media in establishing the different opinions among the public, by building contrasting images of the world.