Dr. Ruslan Baramidze
Visiting Researcher, Arbeitsbereich Bonacker
Contact information
ruslan.baramidze@ 1 Ketzerbach 1135032 Marburg
F|20 Institutsgebäude
Organizational unit
Philipps-Universität Marburg Zentrum für Konfliktforschung (ZfK)Research profile
Banal Militarism
Memory Politics
Nationalism
Muslims and Religious politics in Georgia
Urban heritage
Muslim heritage
Conflict
Migration and diaspora communitiesPublications
Monograph
muslimuti sakulto dzeglebi (art’vini) [The Muslim Monuments of Worship (Artvin)]. (2017). Batumi. ORENT.
sak’art’velos muslimuri t’emi da sakhelmts’ip’o politika [The Muslim Community of Georgia and State Politics]. (2014). Batumi. Horosi XXI.
muslimuri sakulto dzeglebi (atchara) [The Muslim Monuments of Worship (Adjara)]. (2010). Batumi. Shota Rustaveli State University.
Collective Monograph
k’art’veli muslimebi t’anamedroveobis kontek’stshi [The Georgian Muslims in Context of Modernity]. T, Shioshvili, R, Baramidze (ed.),Batumi. GAMAprint. 2010 (in Georgian)
Book Chapters
(with Sergey Rumyantsev) “In Blood, Sweat, and Tears: The Use of Historical Plots in the Struggle forPolitical Power (Introduction)”, in Presidential Elections in the South Caucasus: Political Transformations, Imagined Unity, and Memory Discourses, R. Baramidze, S. Rumyantsev (ed.). Tbilisi. Favorite. 2024
(with Maia Bolkvadze) “The Presidency in Georgia: Subjective Understanding of Political Needs and Institutional Transformations”, in Presidential Elections in the South Caucasus: Political Transformations, Imagined Unity, and Memory Discourses, R. Baramidze, S. Rumyantsev (ed.). Tbilisi. Favorite. 2024
(with Maia Bolkvadze) “Presidential Elections in Georgia: Political Transformations, Imagined Unity, and Memory Discourses in Election Campaigns and Inaugural Speeches”, in Presidential Elections in the South Caucasus: Political Transformations, Imagined Unity, and Memory Discourses, R. Baramidze, S. Rumyantsev (ed.). Tbilisi. Favorite. 2024
(with Maia Bolkvadze) “Pre-Election Discourse in Georgia: Presidential Candidates and the Linguistic Devices They Use”, in Presidential Elections in the South Caucasus: Political Transformations, Imagined Unity, and Memory Discourses, R. Baramidze, S. Rumyantsev (ed.). Tbilisi. Favorite. 2024
“Maradidis dzveli jameebi [The old mosques of Maradidi]”, in maradidi [Maradidi]. M. Chokharadze (ed.), Tbilisi. Meridiani. 2020 (in Georgian)
“Sotsialuri urtiertobebi mach’akhlelta genealogiebshi [Social relations in the genealogies of the descendants of the Muhajirs from Machakhela]”, In Kartvel muhajirta shtamomavlebi turketshi [Descendants of Georgian Muhajirs in Turkey], M. Phaghava (ed.), Batumi. Shota Rustaveli State University. 2017 (in Georgian)
“April 9, 1989 as a Site of Memory: The Policy of Commemoration and History Teaching in Georgia”, in The South Caucasus and Turkey: History lessons of 20th century. S. Rumyantsev (ed.), Tbilisi. Heinrich Böll Stiftung. 2012
“Islam in Adjara – comparative analysis of two communities in Adjara”, in Changing Identities: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, V. Voronkov (ed.), Tbilisi, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, 2012
Peer-Reviewed Articles
(with Maia Bolkvadze) “Formation of the Presidential Institute in Georgia and the Republics of South Caucasus” (2022), Environment and Society, Issue 4, pp. 104-140.
(with Maia Bolkvadze) ““Image of Voters” in the Pre-Election Campaigns of Presidential Candidates in Georgia: Society, People, Nation” (2022), International Journal of Innovative Technologies in Social Science, Issue 3 (35), pp. 1-9.
(with Maia Bolkvadze) “The Presidential Institute in Georgia: Subjective Understanding of Political Needs and Institutional Transformations” (2022), Open Journal of Political Science, Issue 12, pp. 457-493.
“Political Process, Social Activity and Individual Strategies in Georgia: Institutional transformations, struggle for Identity and Georgian Muslims in the Media” (2016), CAP PAPERS (CERIA series), No 166. The Central Asia Program of the George Washington University. pp. 1-17.
“Ethnic Georgian Muslims: A Comparison of Highland and Lowland Villages” (2010), Caucasus Analytical Digest No 20. Tbilisi. pp.13-15.
Conference contributions and workshops
“Decolonisation (?) of Urban Material Culture in Eastern European Cities”,
Aleksanteri Conference, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, October 25–27, 2023.“Negative Language and Examples Used by Presidential Candidates during the Pre-Election Periods in Georgia”, SEVENTH ANNUAL TARTU CONFERENCE ON EAST EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN STUDIES, University of Tartu, Tartu, June 11–13, 2023.
“Relatively European cities": Russian emigrants in Yerevan, Tbilisi, Batumi and Baku”, WARning the CITIES, CISR e.V. Berlin, Berlin, November 25-26, 2022.
“Formation of the President's Institute in Georgia and South Caucasus Republics”, 10th International Scientific Conference "Environment and Society", Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, June 23-25, 2022.
“From Batomi to Batumi: the secnod city of Georgia?”, Act Out Loud, CISR e.V. in Berlin, Berlin, November 27-28, 2021
Academic projects (ongoing and completed)
Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia, February 2019-June 2024, Grant for the project “What wins the elections in Georgia”, Georgia
East-West Management Institute, January 2018-December 2018, Grant for research “Promoting Sustainable Urban Development of Batumi, Georgia” Georgia
Volkswagen Foundation, June 2015-August 2018, Project “Institution Centered Local Conflict Studies”, Free University Berlin
Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation, November 2013-December 2017, Grant for the project “Spiritual and Material Heritage of Georgian Muslims in Turkey”, Georgia
Achara A.R. Government, January 2012-December 2015, Project “History of Muhajirs and Their Descendants in Contemporary Turkey” Georgia
The Foundation for Georgian Studies, Humanities and Social Sciences (Rustaveli Foundation), January 2008-December 2010, Grant for the project “History Muslim Community of Georgia in the present-day context (historical, folklore-ethnographic, socio-psychological, cultural and statistical analysis)” Georgia
Academic activities
06/2019 - 06/2024 | Senior Researcher, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Georgia
06/2012 - 01/2017 | Expert in demography and public participation, Ministry of Finance and Economy of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, Georgia
10/2010 - 11/2012 | Invited specialist, The Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, Georgia
05/2010 - 03/2011 | Senior Researcher, Niko Berdzenishvili Institute, Georgia
09/2006 - 04/2010 | Deputy Director, Niko Berdzenishvili Institute, Georgia
08/2005 - 10/2006 | Head of Press Center, Batumi State University, Georgia
Academic background
March 2009 | PhD degree in History (Ethnology, Ethnography, Anthropology),
Shota Rustaveli State University, Batumi, GeorgiaDecember 2002 | Postgraduate Student (Ethnology, Ethnography, Anthropology),
Niko Berdzenishvili Research Institute of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, Batumi, GeorgiaJune 2000 | Geographer, Geography Teacher (MA equivalent) with Distinction (Natural Science&Geography),
Shota Rustaveli State University, Batumi, GeorgiaAwards
Max Weber Foundation, “Our Past and Future: Dissidents' Discussions on Country and People (Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine”, the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen (Forschungsstelle Osteuropa – FSO), June-July 2024, Research scholarship
Rustaveli-DAAD Joint Fellowship Program, “Identity, Place and Power: Ideological Dimension of Urban Conflict”, University of Marburg, June-November 2019
Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'homme, Scholarship “Politics of Construction of Transnational Community (Paris, France)”, FMSH, France, September-November 2011
Regional office for the South Caucasus of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, “Islam and Muslims in Adjara”, December 2003-December 2004, Scholarship
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