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Let There Be War: Competing Narratives and the Perpetuation of Violence in Georgia

McBrayer, William Daniel
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1230892552

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2009, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, International Development Studies (International Studies).
This thesis is concerned with the perpetuation of violence and ethnic cleansing in Georgia through competing narratives and mass displacement. Primarily through participant observation, open-ended, semi-structured interviews, a focus group, a media analysis, and a review of previously recorded testimonies of displaced persons, this work seeks to understand the process through which various sides in the conflict have defined narratives to legitimize their interests in the South Caucasus. This work attempts to redefine the August 2008 incidences within the broader context of occurrences which may have slipped underneath most headlines, including 300,000 displaced Georgians from the 1990s who have been prevented from returning home to the conflict zones.
Haley Duschinski, PhD (Committee Chair)
David Curp, PhD (Committee Member)
Myra Waterbury, PhD (Committee Member)
99 p.
Ancient Civilizations; Ancient Languages; Cultural Anthropology; Geography; History; International Relations; Middle Ages; Political Science; Russian History; Social Research
Georgia; August 2008; war; ethnic conflict; narratives; Caucasus; IDPs; Abkhazia; South Ossetia; Russia; internal displacement; state-controlled media; neoimperialism

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  • McBrayer, W. D. (2009). Let There Be War: Competing Narratives and the Perpetuation of Violence in Georgia [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1230892552

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • McBrayer, William. Let There Be War: Competing Narratives and the Perpetuation of Violence in Georgia. 2009. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1230892552.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • McBrayer, William. "Let There Be War: Competing Narratives and the Perpetuation of Violence in Georgia." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1230892552

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