Insecurity and Suspicion in the Wake of Urban Development Projects in Batumi, Adjara

Author(s): Martin Demant Frederiksen
Editor(s): Iris Kempe, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Lili Di Puppo, Hans Gutbrod
Series: Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD)
Issue: 38
Pages: 8-11
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University
Publication Year: 2012

Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Batumi, Adjara, this article discusses how insecurity and suspicion has emerged in local perceptions of governmental development projects. Unemployed youth, in particular, show skepticism towards these developments, and although believing it good that things are being done, many feel uncertain as to where such developments are leading, what groups organize the projects, and who benefits from them.

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