Lia Tsuladze
Biographic Data
| ID | 5020960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lia Tsuladze |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lia |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsuladze |
| SIGNATURE | TSULADZE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tbilisi State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9537-2218 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Polarisation through deviation discourse
This paper questions how political and media actors instrumentalise the Europeanisation discourse as a major mechanism of polarisation in Georgia. For this purpose, we link the three "logics of action" related to the strategic usage of Europeanisation with "interpretative" and "positional" aspects of affective polarisation. We address the subject matter through the triangulation of quantitative and qualitative research methods. The findings revea…
Georgia’s Contested European Trajectory
In Georgia, the current ruling party has exploited the European integration process for both discursive and strategic purposes since it came to power in 2012. Georgia Dream’s seemingly recent deviation from the European course in fact has a longer history; it was already visible in 2014. This process further intensified in 2019, and escalated after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, when the party refused to join the EU’s s…
Euro-optimism Intertwined with Pragmatism
The article discusses Georgian political and intellectual elites’ and citizens’ discourses on the country’s Europeanization in the context of pragmatic and identity considerations. The research is based on Q methodology that, in contrast to its traditional use, has been integrated into in-depth interviews with political and intellectual elites and focus group discussions with citizens. Q analysis reveals that both elites and citizens are characte…
De-Europeanization as discursive disengagement
This article looks at de-Europeanization as a progressive disengagement between domestic authorities and EU actors manifested through their discourses.The authors view discursive disengagement as consisting of two major aspects: Discursive opposition between domestic authorities and the EU reflected in their conflicting statements and the intensification of this discursive opposition, whereby the domestic authorities' discourses shift from defens…
A monocrat’s hobby and its power
This article discusses how shadow politics is enacted in Georgia with shadow actors setting the agenda from the political backstage. It conceptualizes acting “along with the state” as a novel form of informality, to describe a situation when state regulations are in place and shadow actors try to “correspond” to such regulations not through adapting their actions but making the state adapt to their needs via modifying formal rules. Such an enactm…
SOS Tbilisi
This article discusses two recent cases of environmental civic participation in Georgia involving resistance to development projects and the attempts to protect public space in the capital city of Tbilisi—the cases of Vake Park and “Panorama Tbilisi.” Despite their distinct lifecycles and levels of policy success, the two cases illustrate the same challenges to environmental civic participation in Georgia. The top-down challenge derives from gove…
On Europeanisation, national sentiments and confused identities in Georgia
This paper analyses Georgians’ popular online discourses on Europeanisation in the period between Georgia’s initialling and signing of the Association Agreement with the EU (November 2013–June 2014). It investigates the ambivalence encountered by Georgians: Despite their long-lasting aspiration towards EU integration, hopes of gaining political security, economic stability, and cultural integration are accompanied by doubts and fears of asymmetri…
De-Europeanization as discursive disengagement
This article looks at de-Europeanization as a progressive disengagement between domestic authorities and EU actors manifested through their discourses.The authors view discursive disengagement as consisting of two major aspects: Discursive opposition between domestic authorities and the EU reflected in their conflicting statements and the intensification of this discursive opposition, whereby the domestic authorities' discourses shift from defens…
On Europeanisation, national sentiments and confused identities in Georgia
This paper analyses Georgians’ popular online discourses on Europeanisation in the period between Georgia’s initialling and signing of the Association Agreement with the EU (November 2013–June 2014). It investigates the ambivalence encountered by Georgians: Despite their long-lasting aspiration towards EU integration, hopes of gaining political security, economic stability, and cultural integration are accompanied by doubts and fears of asymmetri…
SOS Tbilisi
This article discusses two recent cases of environmental civic participation in Georgia involving resistance to development projects and the attempts to protect public space in the capital city of Tbilisi—the cases of Vake Park and “Panorama Tbilisi.” Despite their distinct lifecycles and levels of policy success, the two cases illustrate the same challenges to environmental civic participation in Georgia. The top-down challenge derives from gove…
SOS Tbilisi
This article discusses two recent cases of environmental civic participation in Georgia involving resistance to development projects and the attempts to protect public space in the capital city of Tbilisi—the cases of Vake Park and “Panorama Tbilisi.” Despite their distinct lifecycles and levels of policy success, the two cases illustrate the same challenges to environmental civic participation in Georgia. The top-down challenge derives from gove…
On Europeanisation, national sentiments and confused identities in Georgia
This paper analyses Georgians’ popular online discourses on Europeanisation in the period between Georgia’s initialling and signing of the Association Agreement with the EU (November 2013–June 2014). It investigates the ambivalence encountered by Georgians: Despite their long-lasting aspiration towards EU integration, hopes of gaining political security, economic stability, and cultural integration are accompanied by doubts and fears of asymmetri…
A monocrat’s hobby and its power
This article discusses how shadow politics is enacted in Georgia with shadow actors setting the agenda from the political backstage. It conceptualizes acting “along with the state” as a novel form of informality, to describe a situation when state regulations are in place and shadow actors try to “correspond” to such regulations not through adapting their actions but making the state adapt to their needs via modifying formal rules. Such an enactm…
Georgia’s Contested European Trajectory
In Georgia, the current ruling party has exploited the European integration process for both discursive and strategic purposes since it came to power in 2012. Georgia Dream’s seemingly recent deviation from the European course in fact has a longer history; it was already visible in 2014. This process further intensified in 2019, and escalated after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, when the party refused to join the EU’s s…
Euro-optimism Intertwined with Pragmatism
The article discusses Georgian political and intellectual elites’ and citizens’ discourses on the country’s Europeanization in the context of pragmatic and identity considerations. The research is based on Q methodology that, in contrast to its traditional use, has been integrated into in-depth interviews with political and intellectual elites and focus group discussions with citizens. Q analysis reveals that both elites and citizens are characte…
De-Europeanization as discursive disengagement
This article looks at de-Europeanization as a progressive disengagement between domestic authorities and EU actors manifested through their discourses.The authors view discursive disengagement as consisting of two major aspects: Discursive opposition between domestic authorities and the EU reflected in their conflicting statements and the intensification of this discursive opposition, whereby the domestic authorities' discourses shift from defens…
Polarisation through deviation discourse
This paper questions how political and media actors instrumentalise the Europeanisation discourse as a major mechanism of polarisation in Georgia. For this purpose, we link the three "logics of action" related to the strategic usage of Europeanisation with "interpretative" and "positional" aspects of affective polarisation. We address the subject matter through the triangulation of quantitative and qualitative research methods. The findings revea…
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Economics (3 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (3 works) · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works)