Violent Infrastructure
Protracted Displacement and Housing Injustice in Tskaltubo, Georgia
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- Max O. Stephenson, Jr.
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- Virginia Tech
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- United States
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- Max O. Stephenson Jr.currently serves as a Professor of Public and International Affairs and the Director of the Institute for Policy and Governance at Virginia Tech. His research and teaching interests include leadership, civil society and democratic theory, social change processes, international development, human rights and refugees, and peacebuilding. He is the author or editor of thirteen books or monographs, more than ninety refereed articles and book chapters, and more than four hundred commentaries on democratic politics in the United States and elsewhere.
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- Yannis A. Stivachtis
- Institution
- Virginia Tech
- Country
- United States
- Biography
- Yannis A. Stivachtisis a Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech and holder of the Jean Monnet Chair. He also serves as Director of the Center for European Union and Transatlantic Studies (CEUTS), which has been designated by the European Commission as a Jean Monnet Center of Excellence. His research and teaching interests include human security and EU migration and asylum policy and humanitarian and peace operations. He is the author or editor of thirty-four books, monographs, and special journal issues, as well as numerous articles and book chapters.
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Internal displacement affects tens of millions of people worldwide due to conflict, violence, and natural disasters. Violent Infrastructure: Protracted Displacement and Housing Injustice in Tskaltubo, Georgia explores the experiences of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in the Republic of Georgia through multiple lenses, including human rights, housing justice, geography, policymaking, participatory research methods, and photography.
This book is a companion to the traveling photo exhibition Violent Infrastructure: Ecologies of Decay and Displacement—both are projects born from a team of creatives, scholars, researchers, students, and Georgian IDPs. Violent Infrastructure gives a voice to Georgian IDPs, provides readers a rare and vivid opportunity to look into their lives, and highlights the work that still needs to be done to improve the quality of life of IDPs in Georgia and beyond.