portrait picture Nana Iashvili

Nana Iashvili, BA MA

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Contact Details

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna
NIG, 4th floor
Room: C0408

T: +43-1-4277-49517
E-Mail: nana.iashvili@univie.ac.at

Research Focus Areas

  • Economic anthropology
  • Financialization / Debt
  • Displacement, dispossession and urban restructuring
  • Post-soviet/socialist space
  • Housing Research

Short Biography

Nana Iashvili holds an MA degree in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Central European University in Vienna and BA in Economics and Politics from Bard College Berlin, Germany. In the MA research project, she examined the historical and socio-economic transformation of the post-socialist Tbilisi.

In her current work, Nana is focusing on the housing-debt nexus in Georgia, looking at the mechanisms and practices of housing financialization in the country and the consequences these processes have on people’s lives.