The Armenian Diaspora And Stateless Power

Author : Talar Chahinian
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755648234
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Armenian Diaspora and Stateless Power written by Talar Chahinian and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815655800
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stateless written by Talar Chahinian and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-20 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Stateless, Talar Chahinian offers a rich exploration of Western Armenian literary history in the wake of the 1915 genocide that led to the dispersion of Armenians across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and beyond. Chahinian highlights two specific time periods—post WW I Paris and Post WW II Beirut—to trace the ways in which literature developed in each diaspora. In Paris, a literary movement known as Menk addressed the horrors they experienced and focused on creating a new literary aesthetic centered on belonging while in exile. In Beirut, Chahinian shows how the literature was nationalized in the absence of state institutions. Armenian intellectuals constructed a unified and coherent narrative of the diaspora that returned to the pre-1915 literary tradition and excluded the Menk generation. Chahinian argues that the adoption of “national” as the literature's organizing logic ultimately limited its vitality and longevity as it ignored the diverse composition of diaspora communities.

Author : Brendon J. Cannon
Publisher : XinXii
ISBN 13 : 3939795690
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legislating Reality and Politicizing History written by Brendon J. Cannon and published by XinXii. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legislating Reality and Politicizing History: Contextualizing Armenian Claims of Genocide is the first in-depth study of Armenian and Armenian Diaspora identity viewed via the prism of a historical trauma. Though numerous attempts to define a larger Armenian identity through history, language and/or religion have been performed, no major study has demonstrated the centrality of the events of 1915 to this identity and the formation of Self and Other. The book demonstrates how the Armenian campaign to have the events of 1915 recognized as the Armenian Genocide, flawed and racist as the campaign may be, remains the single bond possessing enough strength to bind the otherwise linguistic, geographically and religiously diverse Armenian Diaspora communities together. Utilizing a quantitative and comparative approach, peppered with International Relations theory and the political economy of lobbying (niche theory), this book demonstrates the pervasiveness and political power of the re-imagined trauma of 1915 to Armenian large group identity. This identity, divorced by time and space from historical realities, relies on efforts to gain ad hoc legislation through the politicization of history in order to convince the world of what Armenians refer to as the Armenian Genocide. This groundbreaking book argues that these political actions as well as the powerful identity narrative underpinning these actions is significant for several reasons. One, this emotive issue and the campaign it has spawned directly affects the future of multiple nation-states (Turkey and Armenia, in particular) as well as a non-state entity, the powerful Armenian diaspora. Two, the campaign regarding which semantics to use in referencing century-old events increasingly dominates international relations between Turkey and the West. Three, by deconstructing the role the trauma of 1915 plays in the development and fecundity of Armenian large group identity, as well as its transmission from generation to generation, an understanding of the quest to legislate reality through the politicization of history is gained. That is, century-old images and caricatures, often racist and bearing no relationship to present-day realities, underpin the campaign (the terrible Turk, anti-Muslim sentiments) and still carry weight - not only for Armenians but much of the West and Russia. This has normative implications and this book demonstrates how Armenian identity, which drives and informs the Armenian diaspora’s campaign of Armenian genocide, recognition actively undermines the strict legal definition and therefore legitimacy that is the United Nations Genocide Convention of 1948. This is done through the wanton application of term “genocide” to the events of 1915, which undercuts established definitions and norms and therefore allows and encourages the rather elastic use of the term for political gain. This further undermines the symbolic weight and power of the UN convention and thereby complicating the courts ability to punish genocide perpetrators.

Author : Denise Aghanian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Armenian Diaspora written by Denise Aghanian and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Nalbantian Tsolin Nalbantian
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474458599
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armenians Beyond Diaspora written by Nalbantian Tsolin Nalbantian and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Khachig Tölölyan
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780954360900
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redefining Diasporas written by Khachig Tölölyan and published by Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Caroline Thon
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643902263
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armenians in Hamburg written by Caroline Thon and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Turgut Kerem Tuncel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786056061950
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armenian Diaspora written by Turgut Kerem Tuncel and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ara Baliozian
Publisher : Kitchener, Ont. : Impressions
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragmented Dreams written by Ara Baliozian and published by Kitchener, Ont. : Impressions. This book was released on 1987 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Berdjouhi Esmerian
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781979079396
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book So Many Homelands written by Berdjouhi Esmerian and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SO MANY HOMELANDS contains Berdjouhi Esmerian's recollections of her childhood in an Armenian home in the cosmopolitan city of Alexandria, Egypt before and after World War II, as well as other historical events that changed the course of her education and life. It also tells of her immigration to the United States in the 1960s and in how she survived and even thrived as a single woman with big dreams. These sometimes serious, sometimes sad, often humorous, and ultimately happy stories will stay in your heart and mind long after reading.