An explorative analysis of the perception of guns and gun laws in Azerbaijan using a mixed-methods approach

IF 0.5 Q3 AREA STUDIES

Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI:10.1080/23761199.2020.1809808

Ingilab Shahbazov, Zaur Afandiyev

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Despite being a post-conflict society, Azerbaijan now enjoys relatively low levels of gun crime and firearm ownership. Adopting a data triangulation approach, this study explored the attitude of the self-select sample (n = 589) in Azerbaijan on guns and gun laws regulating the acquisition of guns, in addition to qualitative interviews. The majority of the participants were content with the current restrictive gun control policies and legislation. Firearms were viewed mostly as an instrument for hunting and self-defence. Qualitative interviews among experts and respondents with experience of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict (n = 19) largely supplemented the findings obtained through the online survey and provided in-depth insights into the meanings attached to firearms. This explorative study contributes to our understanding of the gunscape in the post-communist and post-conflict society that does not suffer from a gun epidemic. From a comparative perspective, the perceptions of Azerbaijani respondents indicate the absence of “conflict mentality” observed in some other conflict-stricken regions, as well as an extremely limited degree of cultural acceptance of guns as honourable and symbolic items to possess.

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使用混合方法对阿塞拜疆枪支和枪支法的看法进行探索性分析

尽管是一个后冲突社会，阿塞拜疆现在享有相对较低的枪支犯罪和枪支拥有率。本研究采用数据三角测量方法，除了定性访谈外，还探讨了阿塞拜疆自选样本(n = 589)对枪支和管制枪支获取的枪支法的态度。大多数参与者对目前的限制性枪支管制政策和立法感到满意。火器主要被视为狩猎和自卫的工具。对具有纳戈尔诺-卡拉巴赫冲突经验的专家和受访者进行的定性访谈(n = 19)在很大程度上补充了通过在线调查获得的调查结果，并对枪支的含义提供了深入的见解。这项探索性研究有助于我们理解后共产主义和后冲突社会中没有枪支泛滥的枪支景观。从比较的角度来看，阿塞拜疆答复者的看法表明，在其他一些受冲突影响的地区没有“冲突心态”，而且在文化上对枪支作为拥有的荣誉和象征性物品的接受程度极为有限。

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Caucasus Survey Arts and Humanities-History

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期刊介绍： Caucasus Survey is a new peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary and independent journal, concerned with the study of the Caucasus – the independent republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, de facto entities in the area and the North Caucasian republics and regions of the Russian Federation. Also covered are issues relating to the Republic of Kalmykia, Crimea, the Cossacks, Nogays, and Caucasian diasporas. Caucasus Survey aims to advance an area studies tradition in the humanities and social sciences about and from the Caucasus, connecting this tradition with core disciplinary concerns in the fields of history, political science, sociology, anthropology, cultural and religious studies, economics, political geography and demography, security, war and peace studies, and social psychology. Research enhancing understanding of the region’s conflicts and relations between the Russian Federation and the Caucasus, internationally and domestically with regard to the North Caucasus, features high in our concerns.