Elites and Institutions in the Armenian Transnation
Tölölyan, Khachig · 2000
The founding editor of Diaspora analyzes how the Armenian dispersion is organized as a 'transnation': a network held together by elites and institutions rather than by sentiment alone. It is the standard reference for the institutional architecture of the diaspora, in which the ARF and its affiliated bodies (party structures, schools, cultural and youth organizations, and the party press) are among the principal institutions competing to represent and mobilize the dispersion, alongside the church, the AGBU and the rival parties.
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Tölölyan, Khachig 2000. Elites and Institutions in the Armenian Transnation. Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 107–136 (University of Toronto Press); DOI 10.1353/dsp.2000.0004. https://doi.org/10.1353/dsp.2000.0004
What this offers a reader
The framework everyone uses to describe how the diaspora is actually organized and who runs it.
The canonical article in Armenian diaspora studies; Tölölyan founded the field's journal.
An outsider's map of our own institutions. Worth reading precisely because it is not written from inside them.
Who actually holds power in the Armenian diaspora, and through what institutions.
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