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Written by admin on December 2nd, 2008

Andrea Weiss

Andrea Weiss

Andrea Weiss holds a „Magistera philosophiae” degree in ethnology and political science from Vienna University and a MA in Central Asian and Caucasian studies from the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Since September 2007 she has been a Marie Curie SocAnth fellow and PhD candidate at the Central European University in Budapest. For her first degree she worked on issues of conflict, violence and war in Croatia, where she also volunteered as a peace servant in NGOs for half a year. In 2007 she did two months of field research in Georgia for her MA thesis on the permeability of the Georgian-Abkhazian ceasefire line for economic relations. The whole academic year 2008/09 is dedicated to fieldwork in the Western Georgian town of Zugdidi for her PhD project „Networks in Grey: Ethnicity and State-Making”. Theoretically she has also shifted her theoretical focus from conflict towards the state. Her current research pursues the questions how clientelist networks and the state mutually constitute each other in the Georgian region of Samegrelo; and what role (Mingrelian) ethnicity can play in these relationships. The results should contribute to a better understanding of the linkages between everyday life mutual-aid relationships, elite networks  and the so-called shadow economy.

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