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The following is a select bibliography of research publications put out by the partners of our office.

[Forthcoming book chapter:] Harris-Brandts, S., & Sichinava, D. (2020). The Politics of Urban Recovery in a Stalinist-era Resort Town: Heritage Tourism and Displaced Communities in Tskaltubo, Georgia. In Al-Harithy, H. (Ed.), Urban Recovery at the Intersection of Displacement and Reconstruction. Routledge.

[Forthcoming book chapter:] Rekhviashvili, L., Sichinava, D., & Berikishvili, E. (2020). Urban protest movements in Tbilisi: movements are strong, but big capital is stronger. In Dariyeva, T., & Neugebauer, C.S. (Eds.), Urban Activism in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. DOM Publishers.

Harris-Brandts, S. (forthcoming). The ‘White Palace’ Party Headquarters: Architecture, Urban Design, and Power in North Macedonia. In Koch, N. (Ed.) Spatializing Authoritarianism. 1-26. Syracuse University Press.

Gogishvili, D., & Harris-Brandts, S. (forthcoming). The Urban Impacts of Second-tier Mega-Events in the Global East: The European Youth Olympic Festival in the South Caucasus. In Bignami, F., & Cuppini, N. (Eds.) Mega-Events, Urban Transformations and Social Citizenship: A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis for Epistemological Foresight. 1-26. London: Routledge.

Sichinava, D. (2020). Elections, Political Parties and Social Change in Georgia (2003-2016). In Jones, S.F., & MacFarlane, N. (Eds.), Georgia: From Autocracy to Democracy. University of Toronto Press.

Harris-Brandts, S. (2020). [Book Review] Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change. Corbin Sies, M., Gournay, I, and Freestone, R. (Eds.). University of Pennsylvania Press. Journal of Historical Geography.

Harris-Brandts, S., & Gogishvili, D. (2020). Lofty Ideals in Aerial Connectivity: Ideology in the Urban Cable Car Network of Tbilisi, Georgia. Eurasian Geography & Economics, Special Issue: Moving post-Soviet publics: citizens, spaces and practices. (Eds.) Sgibnev, V. & Tuvikene, T. Taylor & Francis, 1-18.

Gogishvili, D., & Harris-Brandts, S. (2019). Coinciding practices of exception in urban development: mega-events and special economic zones in Tbilisi, Georgia. European Planning Studies, 1-21.

Salukvadze, J. & Sichinava, D., (2019). Changing Times, Persistent Inequalities? Patterns of Housing Infrastructure Development in the South Caucasus. In Tuvikene, T., Neugebauer, C. S. & Sgibnev, W. (Eds.), Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures. Routledge.

Gogishvili, D., & Harris-Brandts, S. (2019). The social and spatial insularity of internally displaced persons:“neighbourhood effects” in Georgia’s collective centres. Caucasus Survey, 7(2), 134-156.

Harris-Brandts, S. (2019). Revisiting State Spectacle Through the New Capitals of Asia [Author-Critic Forum for: The Geopolitics of Spectacle: Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia by N. Koch]. Central Asian Affairs. Vol. 6, No. 6.4.

Pasquinelli, C., Koukoufikis, G., & Gogishvili, D. (2019). Beyond eventification: capacity building in post-disaster temporariness. Journal of Place Management and Development.

Harris-Brandts, S., & Gogishvili, D. (2018). Architectural rumors: unrealized megaprojects in Baku, Azerbaijan and their politico-economic uses. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 59(1), 73-97.

Harris-Brandts, S. (2018). Building Vacancies: Tourism and Empty Real Estate in Batumi. Urbanistica Tre Journal, 15, Special Issue: Cities of the South Caucasus. Roma Tre Press, 45-56.

Berikishvili, E., & Sichinava, D. (2018). Transformation of Urban Protests in Tbilisi: From Spontaneous Activism to Social Movements. In Neuburg, K., Pranz„ S., Tseretelli, W., et al. (Eds.), Tbilisi: Archive of Transition. Niggli Verlag Publishers. Salenstein, Switzerland.

Gogishvili, D. (2018). Baku formula 1 city circuit: exploring the temporary spaces of exception. Cities, 74, 169-178.

Harris-Brandts, S. (2018). The Role of Architecture in the Republic of Georgia’s European Aspirations. Nationalities Papers. 46 (6), Taylor & Francis, 1118-1135.

Harris-Brandts, S. (2018). Could UNESCO World Heritage Status Help Refugee Camps? How to handle ‘refugee heritage’ from an architectural perspective. Frieze, November/December 2018, Special Issue on Decolonizing Culture. Frieze Publishing.

Sichinava, D. (2018, March 5). Polarisation in Georgia’s Media Landscape. OC Media.

Sichinava, D. (2017). Cleavages, Electoral Geography and the Territorialization of Political Parties in the Republic of Georgia. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 58 (6). 670-690. doi: 10.1080/15387216.2018.1442734

Harris-Brandts, S. (2017). ‘Europe Started Here’: Nation Building and Myth Production in the Republic of Georgia, Thresholds Journal. 45, MIT Press, 124-135.

Harris-Brandts, S. (2016). Decentralize, Desecularize, and Deregulate! The transformation of Kutaisi, Georgia. In MONU Journal , 25 Independent Urbanism, 86-91. Bruil & van de Staaij.

Sichinava, D. (2017, October 18). Will an Independent Mayoral Candidate Bring Political Change to Georgia? New Eastern Europe.

Sichinava, D., & Salukvadze, J. (2017). Spatial Patterns of Emerging Inequalities in Tbilisi,Republic of Georgia. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Boston, MA.

Harris-Brandts, S. (2017). Georgia and the South Caucasus. In S. Piesik (Ed.), HABITAT: Vernacular Architecture for a Changing Planet. London, UK: Thames & Hudson.

Sichinava, D., & Salukvadze, J. (2016). Housing Inequalities and Migrant Remittances in the Capital Cities of the Post-Soviet Eurasia. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) San-Francisco, CA.

Sichinava, D. (2015). Cleavage Theory and the Electoral Geographies of Georgia. In Nodia, G. & C. Stefes (Eds.), Security, Democracy and Development in the Southern Caucasus and the Black Sea Region, Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe, Vol. 14, 27-44. Bern: Peter Lang.

Salukvadze, J.,Sichinava, D., & Gogishvili, D. (2015). Socio-economic and Spatial Factors of Alienation and Segregation of Internally Displaced Persons in the Cities of Georgia. Spatial Inequality and Cohesion: Studia Regionalia, 38, 45–60.

Sichinava, D. (2015). Housing Inequalities in the South Caucasus - Cases of Yerevan and Tbilisi. Presented at the 6th International Urban Geographies of Post-Communist States Conference (CAT), Prague, Czechia.

Gilbreath, D., & Sichinava, D. (2015). NGOs and the Georgian Public: Why Communication Matters. Caucasus Analytical Digest, 73.

Gentile, M., Salukvadze, J., & Gogishvili, D. (2015). Newbuild gentrification, teleurbanization and urban growth: placing the cities of the post-Communist South in the gentrification debate. Geografie, 120(2), 134-163.

Gogishvili, D. (2015). Urban dimensions of internal displacement in Georgia: The Phenomenon and the Emerging Housing Policy. Available at SSRN 2591291.

Salukvadze, J., Gachechiladze, R., Gogishvili, D., Sichinava, D., Javashvili, A., Tugushi, K., & Bregvadze, M. (2013). Coping with marginality and exclusion: can refugees communities successfully integrate into mainstream urban societies in Georgia. Tbilisi, Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Social & Political Studies.