ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
Trading Truths: Missionaries, Diplomats, and Spies in the South Caucasus
TRASUS investigates how religious and political truths move across boundaries. The objectives are to identify the modalities of how truths travel, to propel incisive understandings of how truth-values are attached to collective ideas, and how the resulting truths configure and reconfigure social worlds. Such an in-depth study that theorizes the workings of truth is of paramount importance in an age of misinformation and fake news, in which the transmission of truth is a crucial weapon of power. The project will examine the ‘trade of truths’ along three modalities of transmission (which can intersect and overlap): a missionary modality involving the projection of truth onto those ‘in need’;…
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