An article by Ilia State University Social and Cultural Anthropology PhD candidates Lika Jalaghania, Mariam Urdia, and Ketevan Lapachi, together with postdoctoral researcher Esma Berikishvili, was published in the Studies on Central Asia and the Caucasus

The article titled: “Haunted Modernities: Ruins, Resistance and Poetics of Watery Infrastructures in Georgia” explores how infrastructure shapes social, political, and affective life in contemporary Georgia. Drawing on ethnographic research from Tbilisi’s Mtkvari Riverfront, the Rioni Valley resistance movement, and informal scrap metal economies in Poti, the authors examine infrastructure as a site of memory, contestation, and everyday survival. The article shows how infrastructural projects and ruins reveal tensions surrounding modernisation, development, and environmental change, while also creating spaces for resistance, resilience, and alternative visions of the future in post-Soviet Georgia.

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