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The EU’s hegemonic interventions in the South Caucasus : constructing ‘civil’ society, depoliticising human rights?

Laura Luciani (UGent)
(2021) COOPERATION AND CONFLICT. 56(1). p.101-120
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This article draws upon poststructuralist and postcolonial theories to examine the European Union’s (EU’s) policies of human rights promotion in the South Caucasus – notably, the EU’s engagement with local human rights activists and organisations in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Contrary to most literature, which has been concerned with policy (in)effectiveness, this article is interested in problematising the discursive foundations of this EU-civil society ‘partnership’ in the realm of human rights promotion, as well as in retrieving the agency of actors who are ‘at the receiving end’ of EU policies. It is argued that the discursive construction of ‘civil’ society as a ‘good-Other’ of the EU-Self serves as a means to depoliticise the EU’s interventions, aiming at the approximation of ‘transitioning’ countries to the EU’s human rights standards. Although the hegemonic relation requires subaltern actors to perform the ‘civil’ society identity, processes of hybridisation and subversion arise as external interventions interact with local realities and meanings. Building on in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations, the article shows how the hegemonic identity of ‘civil’ society is negotiated by South Caucasus ‘not-quite-civil’ actors striving for local legitimacy, financial survival or ownership of their human rights work.
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Civil society, European Union, hegemony, human rights promotion, South Caucasus, EUROPEAN-UNION, DEMOCRACY PROMOTION, CENTRAL-ASIA, GOVERNMENTALITY, DISCOURSE, POLICY

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MLA
Luciani, Laura. “The EU’s Hegemonic Interventions in the South Caucasus : Constructing ‘civil’ Society, Depoliticising Human Rights?” COOPERATION AND CONFLICT, vol. 56, no. 1, 2021, pp. 101–20, doi:10.1177/0010836720954478.
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Luciani, L. (2021). The EU’s hegemonic interventions in the South Caucasus : constructing “civil” society, depoliticising human rights? COOPERATION AND CONFLICT, 56(1), 101–120. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010836720954478
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Luciani, Laura. 2021. “The EU’s Hegemonic Interventions in the South Caucasus : Constructing ‘civil’ Society, Depoliticising Human Rights?” COOPERATION AND CONFLICT 56 (1): 101–20. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010836720954478.
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Luciani, Laura. 2021. “The EU’s Hegemonic Interventions in the South Caucasus : Constructing ‘civil’ Society, Depoliticising Human Rights?” COOPERATION AND CONFLICT 56 (1): 101–120. doi:10.1177/0010836720954478.
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Luciani L. The EU’s hegemonic interventions in the South Caucasus : constructing “civil” society, depoliticising human rights? COOPERATION AND CONFLICT. 2021;56(1):101–20.
IEEE
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L. Luciani, “The EU’s hegemonic interventions in the South Caucasus : constructing ‘civil’ society, depoliticising human rights?,” COOPERATION AND CONFLICT, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 101–120, 2021.
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