David Sichinava is co-founder of Collective Domain and adjunct research professor at Carleton University’s Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (EURUS) in Ottawa, Canada. David holds a PhD in Human Geography from Tbilisi State University where he also previously served as assistant professor in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences. Prior to this, David was a part-time professor at the Black Sea University in Georgia and International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (ISET). David’s research focuses on the social, spatial and temporal aspects of inequality, the politics of urban development, and the role of civil society in urban policy. David is also the past Research Director at the Caucasus Research Resource Centre (CRRC-Georgia) in Tbilisi, Georgia, and is currently Research Associate at the New York-based Langer Research Associates. He is also Associate Editor for UC Press’s journal Communist and Post-Communist Studies.
PUBLICATIONS:
Harris-Brandts, S., Gogishvili, D., & Sichinava, D. (In-progress manuscript). Socio-Spatial Georgia: The Politics of Urban Development in Batumi and Tbilisi.
Sahadeo, J., Sichinava, D., & Kotrikdaze, B. (2024). Power and protest: Georgians fighting for their European dream [Policy brief]. Eastern European and Transatlantic Network.
Harris-Brandts, S., & Sichinava, D. (2024). Re-conceptualizing the social, environmental, and political hazards associated with displacement in the Republic of Georgia. In Gaillard, J.C., Rodriguez Alarcón, M., Ocampo Go, C. (Eds.) Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Natural Hazard Science: On Cultural Perspectives. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Harris-Brandts, S., Gogishvili, D., & Sichinava, D. (2024). #SpendYourSummerInGeorgia: Popular Geopolitics and Tourism Marketing in Georgia-Russian Relations, Social and Cultural Geography, 1-19.
Harris-Brandts, S., & Sichinava, D. (2022). 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: Intersecting Displacement with Post War Reconstruction. Routledge.
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.
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.
Sichinava, D. (2020). Cleavages, Electoral Geography and the Territorialization of Political Parties in the Republic of Georgia. In O’Loughlin, J. & Clem, R. S. (Eds.), Political Geographies of the Post-Soviet Union. Routledge.
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.
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.
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.
Chkhaidze, V., Gogsadze, G., Salukvadze, J., & Sichinava, D. (2008). General Characteristics and Regional Patterns of Electoral Behavior: 2008 Presidential Elections in Georgia. Region and Regionalism, 9(2), 65–78.