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"No to Khudoni hydro power plant!" Social movement in Georgia
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Abstract This article examines the movement "No to Khudoni Hydropower Plant", as an example of the longest and continuous civic movement in Georgia. Within the theoretical framework of structural functionalism, it claims that structural changes happening in Georgia's political system during the last 30 years... view more
This article examines the movement "No to Khudoni Hydropower Plant", as an example of the longest and continuous civic movement in Georgia. Within the theoretical framework of structural functionalism, it claims that structural changes happening in Georgia's political system during the last 30 years have caused this movement. The opening of an "window of possibilities" during Perestroika and Glasnost made it possible to start the discussion on the sustainability of the project, which later caused the updating of the project and then, structural changes in 2003, and the strengthening of the civil society made it possible to resume this social movement. This paper aims to analyze the various actors, which are involved in the discussions as opponents or proponents of the Khudoni HPP construction and their arguments are the same despite of the period of 30 years; government and investors are the main proponents of the construction while the academia and civil society are opposing it through various types of strategies. The data collected in the field research allows this article to show how the resistance has managed to survive for more than three decades; what are the arguments of a great number of agents involved with the resistance movement and how its resources are amassed and followers recruited and what makes the movement so unique.... view less
Keywords
civil society; social movement; political system; Georgia; structural change
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
civil activism; structural changes
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 215-235
Journal
Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, 19 (2019) 2
ISSN
1582-4551
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 1.0