399
Views
8
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Political Transformation and Social Change in the South Caucasus

History that splinters: education reforms and memory politics in the Republic of Georgia

Pages 319-338 | Received 01 Nov 2013, Accepted 10 Feb 2014, Published online: 02 May 2014

References

  • Aguilar Fernandez, Paloma, and Katherine Hite. 2003. Authoritarian legacies and democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.
  • Anderson, Benedict. 1991. Imagined communities. New York: Verso.
  • Baumel, Judith Tydor. 2002. Founding myths and heroic icons: Reflections on the funerals of Theodor Herzl and Hannah Szenes. Women’s Studies International Forum, Pergamon 25, no. 6: 679–95.
  • Beissinger, Mark. 1993. Demise of an empire-state: Identity, legitimacy, and the deconstruction of Soviet politics. In The rising tide of cultural pluralism. The nation-state at bay? ed. Crawford Young, 93–115. Madison: The University of Wisconsin.
  • Bell, Duncan. 2003. Mythscapes: Memory, mythology, and national identity. British Journal of Sociology 54: 1.
  • Crawford, Beverley, and Arend Liphart. 1995. Enduring political and economic change in post-communist Eastern Europe: Old legacies, new institutions, hegemons, norms and international pressures. Comparative Political Studies 28, no. 2: 171–99.
  • Davis, Fred. 1979. Yearning for yesterday: A sociology of nostalgia. New York: Free Press.
  • Finnemore, Martha, and Kathryn Sikkink. 2001. Taking stock: The constructivist research program in international relations and comparative politics. Annual Political Review 16: 391–416.
  • Forest, Benjamin, and Juliet Johnson. 2002. Unraveling the threads of history: Soviet-era monuments and post-Soviet national identity in Moscow. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92, no. 3: 524–47.
  • Friedman, Jonathan. 1992. Myth, history, and political identity. Cultural Anthropology 7, no. 2: 194–210.
  • Gellner, Ernest. 1983. Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
  • Gur-Ze’ev, Ilan. 2003. Destroying the other’s collective memory. New York: P. Lang.
  • Halbwachs, Maurice. 1992. On collective memory. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
  • Hobsbawm, E.J., and T.O. Ranger. 1983. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Hopf, Ted. 1998. The promise of constructivism in international relations theory. International Security 23, no. 1: 171–200.
  • Janmaat, J.G., and E. Vickers. 2007. Education and identity formation in post-communist Europa and East Asia: Introduction. Compare 37, no. 3: 267–75.
  • Kakitelashvili, Ketevan. 2009. Instrumentalization of history and teaching in post-Soviet Georgia. Civilizations Researches 7: 24–8.
  • Kuzio, Taras. 2002. History, memory and nation building in the post-Soviet colonial space. Nationalities Papers 30, no. 2: 241–64.
  • Laitin, David. 1998. Identity in formation: The Russian-speaking populations in the new abroad. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
  • Levy, Daniel, Michael Heinlein, and Lars Breuer. 2011. Reflexive particularism and cosmpolitanization: The reconfiguration of the national. Global Networks 11: 139–59.
  • Mannheim, Karl. 1952. The sociological problem of generations. Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge 276–322.
  • Mehlinger, Howard D. 1985. International textbook revision: Examples from the United States. Internationale Schulbuchforschung 7: 287–98.
  • Mendelson, Sarah. 2005. Soviet nostalgia: An impediment to Russian democratization. The Washington Quarterly 29, no. 1: 83–96.
  • Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia. 1997. National Educational Standard in the History of Georgia.
  • Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia. 2007. National Educational Standard in the History of Georgia.
  • Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia. 2011. National Educational Standard in the History of Georgia.
  • Misztal, Barbara. 2005. Memory and democracy. American Behavioral Scientist 48, no. 10: 1320–38.
  • Nikolayenko, Olena. 2008. Contextual effects on historical memory: Soviet nostalgia among post-Soviet adolescents. Communist and Post-Communist Studies 41, no. 2: 243–59.
  • Pain, Emil. 2009. Russia between empire and nation. Russian Politics and Law 47, no. 2: 60–86.
  • Porat, Dan. 2001. A contemporary past: History textbooks as sites of national memory. Ilford: Woburn Press.
  • Reisner, Oliver. 1998. What can and should we learn from Georgian history? Observations of someone who was trained in the western tradition of science. International Textbook Research 20.
  • Schissler, Hanna. 1987. Perceptions of the other and discovery of the self. What pupils are supposed to learn about each other’s past. In Perceptions of history. International textbook research on Britain, Germany and the United States, eds. V.R. Berghahn and H. Schlissler. New York: Berg.
  • Schuman, Howard, Robert F. Belli, and Katherine Bischoping. 1997. The generational basis of historical knowledge. In Collective memories of political events: Social psychological perspectives, eds. J.W. Pennebaker, D. Paez and B. Rime, 47–78. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  • Schuman, Howard, and Jacqueline Scott. 1989. Generations and collective memories. American Sociological Review 54, no. 3: 359–81.
  • Shatirishvili, Zaza. 2009. National narratives and new politics of memory in Georgia. Small Wars and Insurgencies 20, no. 2: 391–99.
  • Shevel, Oxana. 2011. The politics of memory in a divided society: A comparison of post-Franco Spain and post-Soviet Ukraine. Slavic Review 70, no. 1: 137–64.
  • Shulman, Stephen. 2002. Challenging the civic/ethnic and west/east dichotomies in the study of nationalism. Comparative Political Studies.
  • Smith, Anthony. 1996. LSE Centennial Lecture: The resurgence of nationalism? Myth and memory in the renewal of nations. British Journal of Sociology 47, no. 4: 575–98.
  • Trenin, Dmitriĭ. 2011. Post-imperium: A Eurasian story. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
  • Vesely, Luboš ed. 2008. Contemporary history textbooks in the South Caucasus. Prague: AMO.
  • Weldes, J. 1996. Constructing national interests: The United States and the Cuban missile crisis. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Wendt, Alexander. 1999. Social theory of international politics, 231. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Wertsch, James V. 1999. Revising Russian history. Written Communication 16, no. 3: 267–95.
  • Worden, Elizabeth. 2009. The mock reform of history education in Moldova: Actors versus the script. Comparative Education Review 55: 2: 231–51.
  • Yurchak, Alexei. 2005. Everything was forever, until it was no more. The last Soviet generation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Zajda, Joseph, and Rea Zajda. 2003. The politics of rewriting history: New history textbooks and curriculum materials in Russia. International Review of Education 49, no. 3–4: 363–84.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.