Defining contexts of the Postcolonial, the post-Soviet, and the Peripheral – The Case of Georgia [Postkolonyal, post-Sovyet ve periferik kavramlarının çerçevesi: Gürcistan Örneği]

Authors : Aleksandre Ebralidze, Ketevan Grdzelidze

Pages : 57-82

Doi:10.21488/jocas.1278002

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Publication Date : 2023-05-31

Article Type : Research Article

Abstract :In some approaches, the post-Soviet condition is comparable to postcolonial. Yet, another approach defines the post-Soviet as a general context and studies its’ peripheral conditions. Within the framework of this approach, post-Soviet represents context, and the periphery is an additional attestation to it. An internal center produces an internal periphery which is represented as a marginal, dependent, and less significant subject. This internal peripheralization and marginalization is represented as a specific construct and considered a post-Soviet, postcolonial occurrence. These specific constructs include the term peripheral as a secondary element. The present article is an attempt to avoid the hyper-definitions produced by the terms post-Soviet and postcolonial, by defining the term peripheral as a secondary component, which is always in bipolar antagonism with its’ center. The autonomous character of the term peripheral is shown in the case of Georgia, which is mainly studied under the general definition of post-Soviet and postcolonial.
Keywords : Periferik, Post-Sovyet, postkolonyal, Gürcistan