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Historical Analogy and Political Continuity as Technologies of Power: The Armenian Genocide and Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Interrelation in Contemporary Armenian Politics

Krzysztan, Bartłomiej · 2021

Asks how the two defining narratives of modern Armenian identity, the Genocide and the Karabakh conflict, are linked in Armenian political discourse. Using discourse analysis, expert interviews, questionnaires, and ethnographic fieldwork, shows how historical analogy binds the two traumas into a single memory framework shaping nation- and state-building in post-Soviet Armenia.

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Published in
International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2 (AGMI, Yerevan)
Year
2021
Language
English
DOI
10.51442/ijags.0021

Citation

Krzysztan, Bartłomiej 2021. Historical Analogy and Political Continuity as Technologies of Power: The Armenian Genocide and Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Interrelation in Contemporary Armenian Politics. International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2 (AGMI, Yerevan). https://doi.org/10.51442/ijags.0021

What this offers a reader

For students

Great example of mixed-methods discourse analysis; clarifies the genocide–Artsakh connection analytically.

For academics

Peer-reviewed (DOI 10.51442/ijags.0021); Foucauldian framework; author at the Polish Academy of Sciences.

For the community

An outside scholar's confirmation that genocide memory and Artsakh are inseparable in Armenian political life.

For a general reader

Explains why Armenians worldwide reacted to the Karabakh wars through the lens of 1915.

Topics

politics of memoryNagorno-KarabakhArmenian Genocidepost-Soviet Armeniapolitical science

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