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ROSE-COLORED GLASSES? Color Revolutions and Cartoon Chaos in Postsocialist Georgia
Article first published online: 7 JAN 2008
DOI: 10.1525/can.2007.22.2.171
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MANNING, P. (2007), ROSE-COLORED GLASSES? Color Revolutions and Cartoon Chaos in Postsocialist Georgia. Cultural Anthropology, 22: 171–213. doi: 10.1525/can.2007.22.2.171
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- Issue published online: 7 JAN 2008
- Article first published online: 7 JAN 2008
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Keywords:
- political oratory;
- images;
- postsocialism;
- revolution
The Georgian “Rose Revolution” of 2003 was preceded by events in November 2001, in which students protested against a government raid on a popular TV station, Rustavi 2, and forced then-President Shevardnadze to request the resignation of the Georgian cabinet as the students demanded. This article describes these events in detail to show how political transition in Georgia has been carried out and exemplified by new political rhetorics and metarhetoric that expressly confronted entrenched logics of reception. The article illustrates how shifts in state formation, in postsocialist contexts in particular, are tied to shifts in representational modes.