Armenian Diaspora

Author : Denise Aghanian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Armenian diaspora
ISBN : UOM:39076002687064

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The Armenian Diaspora by Denise Aghanian Pdf

The Armenian Diaspora is a case study of the Armenian diaspora in Manchester, England. This study examines the complex social and political processes at play that maintain and shape Armenian identity. Professor Aghanian uses a comparative analysis in order to understand other Armenian communities throughout the world and other self-defined diaspora groups, locating similarities and differences between the various groups. Professor Aghanian introduces the study by her definition of diaspora and an examination of classic and contemporary theories of ethnicity while she outlines how we construct our sense of identity in different settings. The tone of the study lends itself to a narration of the long, rich, and often traumatic history of the Armenian people: their adoption of Christianity; the rise of Armenian nationalism; the dispersion of the Armenians throughout the world; and their eventual independence. The outcome of the study is a close look at how Armenians successfully balance lives rooted in a particular territory while sharing very different cultural and social spaces. Their experience emphasizes their ability to combine resources and networks from multiple locations (transnationally) in order to maximize their freedom and independence from the confines of any nation. Ethnic consciousness is experienced in a variety of ways, nevertheless, wherever and however they are living they feel Armenian.

Author : Khachig Tölölyan
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Armenians
ISBN : 0954360907

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Redefining Diasporas by Khachig Tölölyan Pdf

Author : Nalbantian Tsolin Nalbantian
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474458597

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Armenians Beyond Diaspora by Nalbantian Tsolin Nalbantian Pdf

This book argues that Armenians around the world - in the face of the Genocide, and despite the absence of an independent nation-state after World War I - developed dynamic socio-political, cultural, ideological and ecclesiastical centres. And it focuses on one such centre, Beirut, in the postcolonial 1940s and 1950s.Tsolin Nalbantian explores Armenians' discursive re-positioning within the newly independent Lebanese nation-state; the political-cultural impact (in Lebanon as well as Syria) of the 1946-8 repatriation initiative to Soviet Armenia; the 1956 Catholicos election; and the 1957 Lebanese elections and 1958 mini-civil war. What emerges is a post-Genocide Armenian history of - principally - power, renewal and presence, rather than one of loss and absence.

Author : Caroline Thon
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Armenian diaspora
ISBN : 9783643902269

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Armenians in Hamburg by Caroline Thon Pdf

"In Germany, the Armenian diaspora has hardly been noticed by the public or by researchers. However, it is one of the oldest disaporas in the world ... This research examines specific resources and cultural concepts of the Armenian community in Hamburg which encourage success."--Back cover.

Author : Talar Chahinian,Sossie Kasbarian,Tsolin Nalbantian
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755648238

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The Armenian Diaspora and Stateless Power by Talar Chahinian,Sossie Kasbarian,Tsolin Nalbantian Pdf

From genocide, forced displacement, and emigration, to the gradual establishment of sedentary and rooted global communities, how has the Armenian diaspora formed and maintained a sense of collective identity? This book explores the richness and magnitude of the Armenian experience through the 20th century to examine how Armenian diaspora elites and their institutions emerged in the post-genocide period and used “stateless power” to compose forms of social discipline. Historians, cultural theorists, literary critics, sociologists, political scientists, and anthropologists explore how national and transnational institutions were built in far-flung sites from Istanbul, Aleppo, Beirut and Jerusalem to Paris, Los Angeles, and the American mid-west. Exploring literary and cultural production as well as the role of religious institutions, the book probes the history and experience of the Armenian diaspora through the long 20th century, from the role of the fin-de-siècle émigré Armenian press to the experience of Syrian-Armenian asylum seekers in the 21st century. It shows that a diaspora's statelessness can not only be evidence of its power, but also how this “stateless power” acts as an alternative and complement to the nation-state.

Author : Talar Chahinian,Sossie Kasbarian,Tsolin Nalbantian
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755648221

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The Armenian Diaspora and Stateless Power by Talar Chahinian,Sossie Kasbarian,Tsolin Nalbantian Pdf

From genocide, forced displacement, and emigration, to the gradual establishment of sedentary and rooted global communities, how has the Armenian diaspora formed and maintained a sense of collective identity? This book explores the richness and magnitude of the Armenian experience through the 20th century to examine how Armenian diaspora elites and their institutions emerged in the post-genocide period and used “stateless power” to compose forms of social discipline. Historians, cultural theorists, literary critics, sociologists, political scientists, and anthropologists explore how national and transnational institutions were built in far-flung sites from Istanbul, Aleppo, Beirut and Jerusalem to Paris, Los Angeles, and the American mid-west. Exploring literary and cultural production as well as the role of religious institutions, the book probes the history and experience of the Armenian diaspora through the long 20th century, from the role of the fin-de-siècle émigré Armenian press to the experience of Syrian-Armenian asylum seekers in the 21st century. It shows that a diaspora's statelessness can not only be evidence of its power, but also how this “stateless power” acts as an alternative and complement to the nation-state.

Author : Edmund Herzig,Marina Kurkchiyan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135798369

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The Armenians by Edmund Herzig,Marina Kurkchiyan Pdf

A comprehensive introduction to the historical forces and recent social and political developments that have shaped today's Armenian people. With contributions from leading Armenian, American and European specialists, the book focuses on identity formation, exploring how the Armenians' perceptions of themselves and their place in the world are informed by their history, culture and present-day situation. The book also covers contemporary politics, economy and society, and relates these to ongoing debates over future directions for the Armenian people, both in the homeland and in the diaspora communities.

Author : Sylvia Angelique Alajaji
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253017765

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Music and the Armenian Diaspora by Sylvia Angelique Alajaji Pdf

Survivors of the Armenian genocide of 1915 and their descendants have used music to adjust to a life in exile and counter fears of obscurity. In this nuanced and richly detailed study, Sylvia Angelique Alajaji shows how the boundaries of Armenian music and identity have been continually redrawn: from the identification of folk music with an emergent Armenian nationalism under Ottoman rule to the early postgenocide diaspora community of Armenian musicians in New York, a more self-consciously nationalist musical tradition that emerged in Armenian communities in Lebanon, and more recent clashes over music and politics in California. Alajaji offers a critical look at the complex and multilayered forces that shape identity within communities in exile, demonstrating that music is deeply enmeshed in these processes. Multimedia components available online include video and audio recordings to accompany each case study.

Author : Vahagn Vardanyan
Publisher : Gomidas Institute Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1909382698

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NATIONAL IDENTITY, DIASPORA, AND SPACE OF BELONGING by Vahagn Vardanyan Pdf

Diasporan communities live in an extraterritorial space. They are in both symbolic and physical 'permanent return' to their territorially bounded homeland. By being rooted in this sense of geographic belonging, their perception of national identity is set within a context of homeland-diaspora relations through the prism of space and place. In this book, Vahagn Vardanyan examines relations between one of the 'classical' diasporas - the Armenians and the Republic of Armenia - from the perspectives of diasporans. As he argues, these connections were transformed after Armenia acquired sovereignty in 1991. Over the three decades since then, it has become possible to study diaspora-homeland relations as they are viewed by diasporans who have seen Armenia before and after Armenian independence, and those, for whom independent Armenia has always been a reality and never a diasporic dream. With fewer ethnic Armenians living in Armenia than in the diaspora, Armenia is increasingly viewed as responsible for becoming the cultural center for global Armenianness. What is needed to reach an understanding between the homeland and its diaspora? How can, as diasporans see it, the homeland's policy toward the diaspora facilitate their return and strengthen the diasporans' sense of belonging to the homeland? These are among the many questions Vardanyan attempts to answer, while advocating an inclusionary policy toward the diaspora by a country, which is home to only a third of the global nation it claims to represent.

Author : Ara Baliozian
Publisher : Kitchener, Ont. : Impressions
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Armenia
ISBN : UOM:39076002698061

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Fragmented Dreams by Ara Baliozian Pdf

Author : Tsolin Nalbantian
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474458580

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Armenians Beyond Diaspora by Tsolin Nalbantian Pdf

This book argues that Armenians around the world - in the face of the Genocide, and despite the absence of an independent nation-state after World War I - developed dynamic socio-political, cultural, ideological and ecclesiastical centres. And it focuses on one such centre, Beirut, in the postcolonial 1940s and 1950s. Tsolin Nalbantian explores Armenians' discursive re-positioning within the newly independent Lebanese nation-state; the political-cultural impact (in Lebanon as well as Syria) of the 1946-8 repatriation initiative to Soviet Armenia; the 1956 Catholicos election; and the 1957 Lebanese elections and 1958 mini-civil war. What emerges is a post-Genocide Armenian history of - principally - power, renewal and presence, rather than one of loss and absence.

Author : Konrad Siekierski,Stefan Troebst
Publisher : Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783412501556

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Armenians in Post-Socialist Europe by Konrad Siekierski,Stefan Troebst Pdf

This volume presents articles on the modern Armenian diaspora in post-socialist Europe, including the Baltic States, Belarus, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia and Ukraine. Specialists from the fields of cultural anthropology, sociology, and area studies offer their insights into current developments of Armenian communities which, although located within common post-socialist time-space, differ from one another significantly in terms of their historical background, identity politics, and socio-cultural characteristics.

Author : Armine Ishkanian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822018876250

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The Armenian Diaspora by Armine Ishkanian Pdf

Author : Henry R. Shapiro
Publisher : Non-Muslim Contributions to Islamic Civilisation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11
Category : Armenians
ISBN : 1474479618

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The Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire by Henry R. Shapiro Pdf

How mass migration and a refugee crisis transformed Armenian culture in the 17th-century Ottoman Empire At the turn of the 17th century, the historical Armenian population centres in Eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus were ravaged by war with Persia, rebellion, famine and economic collapse. This instability caused mass migrations towards secure territories in Western Anatolia, Istanbul and Thrace, migrations which catalysed a renaissance of Armenian literary and cultural life in the Ottoman capital. This book traces the emergence, experiences and cultural and literary production of Armenian communities in and around Istanbul and the western provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period. Using both Ottoman Turkish and little-known Armenian sources, Henry Shapiro provides a systematic study of the Armenian population movements that resulted in the cosmopolitan remaking of Istanbul - and the birth of the Western Armenian diaspora. Key Features  The first English-language book on Armenian cultural history in the early modern Ottoman Empire  Based on original research using Armenian manuscripts and Ottoman Turkish archives  Includes 3 black-and-white maps and 20 photographs of Armenian ruins, historical sites and manuscript pages Henry R. Shapiro is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Polansky Academy for Advanced Study at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

Author : Astghik Chaloyan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658188269

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Fluctuating Transnationalism by Astghik Chaloyan Pdf

This book concerns various modes of being transnational among a diasporic population—Armenians in Germany—by drawing parallels between the first and second generation migrants. It puts forth the questions as to whether or not, and which kind of transactional activity/ties/practices survive over generations, and to what extent transnational engagements influence self-identification and the sense of belonging. It also examines how various modes of transnationalism, in turn, impact the sense of belonging. The book fleshes out new perspectives and interpretations of transnationalism, by revealing specific aspects of border-spanning ties, and by showing that connections to the country of origin do not necessarily need to be sustained or intensive in order to survive. They can, instead, fluctuate depending on various factors but still have the “right” to be called transnational.