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Winner of the Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies
Co-winner of the Charles Taylor Book Award

How do ordinary people navigate the intense uncertainty of the onset of war? Individuals mobilize in different wayssome flee, some pick up arms, and some support armed actors. Drawing on nearly two hundred in-depth interviews with participants and nonparticipants in the Georgian-Abkhaz war of 19921993, Mobilizing in Uncertainty explores Abkhaz mobilization decisions during that conflict.

Anastasia Shesterinina uncovers that to make sense of the violence, Abkhaz leaders, local authority figures, and others relied on shared understandings of the conflict and their roles in itcollective conflict identitiesthat they had developed before the war. People consolidated mobilization decisions within small groups of family and friends and based their actions on whom they understood to be threatened and mobilized to protect. Their decisions shaped how

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      Publisher: Cornell University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/15/2024 12:11:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781501778964, 978-1501778964
      ISBN10: 150177896X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Winner of the Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies
      Co-winner of the Charles Taylor Book Award

      How do ordinary people navigate the intense uncertainty of the onset of war? Individuals mobilize in different wayssome flee, some pick up arms, and some support armed actors. Drawing on nearly two hundred in-depth interviews with participants and nonparticipants in the Georgian-Abkhaz war of 19921993, Mobilizing in Uncertainty explores Abkhaz mobilization decisions during that conflict.

      Anastasia Shesterinina uncovers that to make sense of the violence, Abkhaz leaders, local authority figures, and others relied on shared understandings of the conflict and their roles in itcollective conflict identitiesthat they had developed before the war. People consolidated mobilization decisions within small groups of family and friends and based their actions on whom they understood to be threatened and mobilized to protect. Their decisions shaped how

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